Weather Station Refurb 2013

At the beginning of this year (2013) I decided to carry out a full refurb of the weather station. When I took the station down last year (2012) I found lots of issues with it, mainly to do with the inconnecting wires between the different sensors. I...

House Monitoring (deprecated)

to monitor it's temperatures. All the data collected has been logged in to a MySQL database. However only recently have I decided to publish it for all to view. All this has been superseded, I have yet to give a description of the new system. The...

Avro Shackleton

I recorded the following video at Vallance By Ways in 1994 Steam Fair. I have only just rediscovered it, and so decided to share it with you all. It depicts the starting of all four Rolls Royce Griffon Engines, what a wonderful sound. The following...

Raspberry PI NTP Stratum 1 Server

One of the biggest issue was finding an outdoors housing for the GPS unit, and as I had come up with a solution, I decided to use the same unit. This gave one interfacing issue with the PI, the 1 PPS, was only 2uS long, not enough for the PI to catch....

Raspberry PI GPS Time Source

clocks uses a radio controlled time source to sync to, the MSK clock in the UK. This has not been that reliable, thus I decided it needed to be changed for another time sync system. The clock also supported GPS as a time source. Hum, this would mean...

Nixie Tube Clock - End On Tubes

in re-syncing. I did not bother too much at diagnosing the issue at this point as I had still to make a case for it. I decided that I wanted to sandwich the pcb between two perspex sheets, with the tubes poking out. This would allow the circuit to be...

Nixie Tube Construction

As one of my Nixie Tubes failed, I decided to remove it's glass encasement, to get a better look at the internals. The tube is a IN-12A, from the former Soviet Union. If you click on the pictures a larger picture will popup.