Llangollen
Today brought us through wonderful Welsh countryside to Llangollen. The river Dee rushes past the old corn mill, now a pub, and steam trains run on the other side of the river. The pub celebrates the history of trap shooting.
Chirk and the local nobility
Today we’ve arrived in Chirk. Transferring train at Newport was like arriving in a foreign european country – not the mother country like Bristol. All the station signs were bilingual. The train through the Welsh country side was lovely. On arrival at Chirk, we walked across to the hotel, puzzling about the sweet smell in …
Sunset over docklands
Strangely, given I work close to where this was taken, I haven’t stopped to take notice of this side of Docklands before at dusk.
Heading off
I’m excited to be finished work and to be going to join Danielle today. Not quite Brighton in the UK yet. Soon though. Well at least somewhere in the general vicinity. We will be posting to our travel blog once again, at least I will be; Danielle has not contributed much in the past week. …
Meal plan w/c 11/5
Saturday night – Danielle to sort Sunday lunch – brunch with Andrew & Phuong Sunday night – Pork Ragu with creamy sage polenta but instead with Creamed Spinach Polenta Monday night – left overs or freezer Tuesday night – Yoghurt rubbed Chicken with red lentils Wednesday night – eat out or left overs Thursday night – Thai seafood soup with …
Meal plan w/c 4/5
Saturday lunch: whatever takes Roger’s fancy while shopping. Saturday night: Chakchouka Sunday lunch: out while shopping Sunday dinner with Wendy: Chicken and Tarragon Patties with Fennel and Apple Salad and Roasted Capsicum and Spinach Fritters with apple and raspberry sponge pudding dessert. Monday night: Roast Salmon with Bacon & Fennel Tuesday night: Coconut chicken curry with coriander …
Building EasyCAP support with easycap-somagic-linux on Fedora Core 19
Introduction & EasyCAP Identification Needing a video display solution for streamed video from the Cobra, I obtained a EasyCAP USB 2.0 Audio/Video Capture off DX.com. This device turned out to identify as follows in Fedora Core 19 with kernel 3.13.9-100.fc19.x86_64 and was not available as a device in V4L New USB device found, idVendor=1c88, idProduct=0007 Or with lsusb …
WC 14 April
Sunday – Green Curry Fish parcels – but planning to make with red curry paste. Tuesday – steak and vegetables (carrots, pumpkin, corn, bok choy) Wednesday – Speedy Chicken & Mushroom casserole as a pasta sauce (forgot the mushrooms) Friday – Ham and Broccoli Pasta Bake
FC-T12 2-axis gimbal assembly and bench test.
Unit overview FC-T12 2-axis gimbal from HobbyKing is a cheap ($15US) and light (72g without servos – 124g all up in this configuration) 2-axis gimbal suitable for small cameras. In this build configuration, the servo controlling pitch is a Hextronik HXT900 9gr / 1.6kg / 0.12sec micro. The servo controlling roll is a Hextronik 5010 39.2g / 6.9kg / …
Menu plan wc 22 Feb
The plan for this week Sunday night – Beef and red wine casserole – but consider adding rosemary Monday night – Gloriana Tuesday night – Steamed fish with ginger lemon grass Wednesday night – steak & vegetables Thursday night – Sausages with lentils & fetta Friday night – whatever comes