Monday, October 26, 2015

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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Friday, October 23, 2015

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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Thursday, October 22, 2015

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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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Sunday, October 18, 2015

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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