Victoria Road plans

There are now two options for a redesign of Victoria Road in the south side available to view on the Glasgow City Council web site. Option 1 The first design has unidirectional cycleways on each side of the road: This looks like a reasonable effort. I’m very happy to see zebra crossings (replacing two-stage staggered […]

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Installing Libraries and how to write a Library for Arduino

Libraries are files written in C or C++ which provide sketches with extra functionality, for example the ability to control an LED matrix, read an encoder, connect to a sensor, display, or module, etc. They are very useful to lower the barriers for creating amazing interactive projects and use a wide range of components.  Libraries […]

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Did you solve it? How many will the zombie outbreak infect?

Will we all be eating brains by sunset, or will the virus die out of its own accord? Here’s the solution to today’s puzzle about the zombie virus

Earlier today I set you a Halloween puzzle with the following set-up:

An infected zombie has a 1/3 chance of passing the infection to a single human, a 1/3 chance of passing the infection to two humans, and a 1/3 chance of passing the infection to no one. No one in the UK is infected by the zombie virus until a single zombie arrives.

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Can you solve it? How many will the zombie outbreak infect?

This year’s seasonal flu is the zombie virus. But how far across the population will it spread?

Greetings, guzzlers.

As it’s Halloween this week...

Related: Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a maths jammer?

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Tim Dowling: It's checkmate. My wife's got no next move

But can I back down without losing face?

It’s Saturday, just after lunch, and there is something unsettled at my core. It’s nothing specific, yet; just a combination of jumpiness and exhaustion, and a certain skin-prickling sensitivity to my surroundings. It could be anxiety in search of a corresponding crisis, or it could be the day-one orientation of some actual approaching illness. It could also be nothing, but in my experience it pays to keep your eye on these things, because no one else is interested.

I wander from room to room for a while, and eventually end up in bed with a book. When I next open my eyes, the windows are dark. Well, I think. That’s Saturday taken care of.

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PODCAST EP.6 – GARTH JENNINGS

Podcast 6 features conversations with film director Garth Jennings, an old friend who filled in for Joe on several occasions back at 6 Music, and worked with me on the Radiohead webcasts back in 2007. I occasionally pop up in Garth’s projects, the his video for The Wannadies -- Little By Little and he occasionally ...

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PODCAST EP.5 – ROB BRYDON AND PLATFORM SHIFT

This week’s podcast is a conversation between myself and Rob Brydon. We spoke about the enjoyable ‘art’ of voice overs, Paul McCartney (can’t find anything on line to link to for him, sorry) and ‘The Trip’. Here’s a link to the ‘to bed for we leave at daybreak’ bit that Rob mentions (though the uploader ...

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Citizen Scientist: Forrest Mims

Before the modern notion of the citizen scientist lies the earlier ideal of the independent scientist. Scientists outside of the academic community but engaging with it. These days citizen scientists are often seen as valuable assistants in the scientific process, helping collect and process data in a quantity which would be otherwise intractable.

In the past however, independent scientists had a far more central role. Galileo, Kepler, Darwin and Hooke were all self funded at various points in their careers. More recently independent scientist Peter Mitchell won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1978 for his foundational research into cell …read more

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Should bike helmets be compulsory? Lessons from Seattle and Amsterdam

In Seattle, helmets have been mandatory for 12 years – but many cycling advocates argue such laws discourage cycling while doing nothing to improve road safety. Should cyclists in London be fined if they don’t wear a helmet?

Every day, Elizabeth Kiker cycles to her work through the streets of Seattle. As the executive director of a big bicycle club, she wants to show people that you don’t need fancy gear to ride a bike – so she rides in her skirt and office shoes. But she does wear a helmet. If she didn’t, she would risk a $102 (£67) fine.

Seattle is one of the few big cities in the world where cyclists of all ages are legally required to wear a helmet. “There’s an interesting conversation going on about this, because it could dissuade people from cycling,” says Kiker. “And yet, it is safer if you fall. I once slipped with my bike and fell on my helmet and I was glad I was wearing it.”

Cycling without a helmet is something I take for granted, I never give it any thought

It was feared the helmet law would hurt our new bike share programme, but it hasn’t

Related: The most cycle-friendly cities in the world – your pictures and stories

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PODCAST EP. 4 – JON RONSON & JAMES BOND SONG

Howdy. Podcast number 4 features a conversation I recorded with Jon Ronson (author of ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’, ‘The Psychopath Test’, ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’ etc.) in March 2014 when I was in New York. We talked about about dealing with criticism, Woody Allen, neuroses and other podcasts. Towards the end of ...

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Controlling Guitar Amps With Servos

[fichl] plays electric guitar, and with that hobby comes an incredible amount of knob twisting and dial turning. This comes at a cost; he can’t change the settings on his small amp without taking his hands off the guitar. While larger, more expensive amps have multiple channels and footswitches, this tiny amp does not. Instead of upgrading, [fichl] came up with a device that turns his single channel amp into a completely programmable one, with just an Arduino and a handful of servos.

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Why You Should Be Using a Linear Voltage Regulator

If your project requires stable voltage but you have an unregulated input, you'll want to use the right kind of linear voltage regulator.

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Latest Raspberry Pi Images have Improved Scratch

Not everyone likes Scratch — the block-oriented programming language that MIT developed to help kids program. While dyed-in-the-wool programmers probably find it limiting, it can be an effective way to teach basic programming to newcomers and there are some people who enjoy the graphical style of programming.

The latest Raspbian release (the operating system image for Raspberry Pi) has a new and improved version of Scratch for those who want to use it on the Pi. According to the Raspberry Pi blog, the new version is up to ten times faster than previous versions and also includes an improved method …read more

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PODCAST EPISODE 3 – ‘DR BUCKLES’ COLD SAFARI’

In episode 3 of my podcast I take you on a journey through a week suffering from a cold via voice note diaries recorded during a recent bout of illness. It was a few days before he I supposed to be doing a handful of live shows in London, so I was worried I wouldn’t ...

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