Ryan Walmsley

When playing CS:GO recently one of the most common things in office is to well, shoot the office area containing the computers, monitors etc. However I then thought, Can I replicate this? By replicate in this sense I mean the rough specification to

This post will be updated as I find out more information and will be marked with the date of edits So with all of my EV Experience so far there's been one issue which is a major issue with my car that I am

One thing noticed with public EV charging networks is the hassle involved to use some of them. And are all partially barriers into charging. These are all ideas I think that should be applied. Method of Billing The first thing which isn't consistant is

So I'm 4 Weeks into owning my Electric Car and this is my first round up. Some bits may be repeated from the previous posts however a majority should be new. The Car Itself Straight to the point, the car itself. Its a really

So as previously mentioned in the last two posts I've been looking at getting an EV Charger installed, the last two posts were a little muddled up as I tried to write both to be seperate but an issue in publishing then caused conflict

One of the biggest things with an EV is charging, while the UK has quite a few points unfortunately there are no points in Great Yarmouth which are for the public to use. As of this (and most people would even with charging points

Yesterday I went and picked up my Zoe! So how has it been? Its actually a really nice car so far, one of my biggest worries which was getting used to it being an automatic car has been not too bad and already around

Just a short blogpost following up on the Lora Backplane I designed. One of the main concerns was temperature. And while I didn't think it would be much of an issue because it has to be in a sealed box it was overheating to

Well I have a gateway, But currently no devices to use! So let's design a simple sensor. My specification is to make two sensors at a maximum cost of £10 a sensor excluding enclosure. Being outside there's a few things we can't easily sense

This is a shortish blogpost about my experiences with LoRa and more so LoRaWan and The Things Network and includes more realistic figures so might be a bit of "myth busting". I repeat these are experiences and my views & interpretations. I

At the end of the last blogpost I mentioned that the range was FAR off what I should be getting. The whole point of LoRa is that it's long range. So lets try and fix that. This post is a bit like a journal

Originally I was planning on this being a post detailing how to setup a single channel nano gateway for The Things Network, Doing some distance testing etc. However this quickly wasn't the case as I was only able to get approximately a range of

Next up on the list of Claw To Do, Rigging it! PSA: Most claws are Rigged in some method in the UK, that's why no matter how well that you line the claw up with the prize. The machine will make you loose. This

This blog post will detail how the Pi Claw works and what its currently running on. The Claw Itself Let's start with the claw itself. Originally the machine was a standard small claw machine designed to go more in Pubs, Cinemas etc instead of

To play the Pi Claw head over to http://piclaw.xyz/ ####Normal blogpost below. Well it's been a little while since the last claw update so here's whats been happening! If you follow me on twitter you'll likely have seen most of this however

In this blog post I will be detailing the analysis of the reason for failure and designing the first revision PCB. Analysis While initially I believed the Power supply was at fault it seems it was not. I opened it up and powered it

A quick follow up update based on what's happened in initial testing. To begin with the string snapped on the claw which is a simple fix, of which the reason why I haven't changed to a stronger string is that it acts a bit

After testing replacing the note acceptor connector with a Pi I shortly decided to quickly replace the main electronics board with a Pi instead to control it. Basic Requirements With only a week to go when I started I had to set the basic

In part 1 of converting the Claw's original electronics to a Raspberry Pi I first need to analyse the existing electronics controller to plan the specifications of the new controller board and the workings of it currently. The current machine has 3 Separate PCBs,