Dev

The monthly tube strike is pretty inconvenient but it does offer opportunities to test things. Here is what my LED strip looks like today. »

I’ve revisited an old project of mine. My original pragmatic tube status. I’ve updated it a bit over the years and I recently had to move it to a new host. »

I’ve been asked for a comparison of what my LED lights tube status alert project looks like during normal service versus disruption. »

Update: There’s a newer article about how to do this on all devices, including phones and tablets. TL;DR, block polling. »

I’ve written previously about using the new mobile app install banner in Chrome. It’s possible to test this by setting a flag (chrome://flags/#bypass-app-banner-engagement-checks) but I experienced some weird edge cases so I did a bit of digging (the beauty of open source). »

Update: Displaying a full screen web page on a Raspberry Pi is a very common use case. You may want to check out FullPageOS, which looks pretty similar to my original hacks but packaged up nicely into an OS image. »

After reading about Google’s new Eddystone protocol specification for BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacons similar to Apple’s iBeacon I wanted to try it out. »

I love my Blinky Tape LED strip (basically a NeoPixel with a built it USB microcontroller) and one of my lifelong ambitions is to see the northern lights (Aurora Borealis). »