Enlightened Geek Listening
For some reason I never did any podcast listening until about 10 months ago. At that point I decided to give it a go and quickly assembled an initial list of subscriptions by googling around to see...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi GPIO Workshop
Update: a writeup of the event by Lorraine is here. A shot post to say that I am co-organizing a Raspberry Pi workshop with The IET Solent Branch at the University of Southampton on 25 April. For...
View Article3rd RHoK from the South
First we RHoKed it, then we RHoKed it again and now I’m happy to announce I will running the 3rd global RHoK in Southampton as well. Again with help from Alejandro Saucedo and HackaSoton. During the...
View ArticleUAVs meet Node.js – NodeCopter comes to Southampton on 10 Aug
I have always been a fan of autonomous flying machines, particular their civilian applications, and through my past work at the University I have been fortunate to be able to work on the design and...
View ArticleRHoK 4
I’m happy to announce that Random Hacks of Kindness will be coming to Southampton for the 4th time! Again with help from Alejandro Saucedo and HackaSoton. During the weekend of 6-7 December 2013, The...
View ArticleAnnouncing Deep Learning London Meetup
It has been almost half a year since I announced I would take over the London Big-O Algorithms meetup and bring it back to life. 5 Months later I am very happy to say all has gone extremely well,...
View ArticleTaarifa Hackathons: Boston, London, Dar Es Salaam
A lot has changed since I last blogged about Taarifa. We have been the recipient of a World Bank Innovation Fund grant and are going through the Geeks Without Bounds Humanitarian Accelerator. Work is...
View ArticleDeep Drone: A Flying Object Detector with caffe, dronekit, and zeromq
About a year and a half ago I saw Jetpac’s video of their Spotter app and I remember thinking at the time that it would be so cool to get this flying on a drone. I didn’t have the bandwidth to work on...
View ArticleDeep Drone v2
In my last post I discussed my little flying object detector project that I’ve been doing for fun. While it worked it relied on communication with an external laptop in order to work (the on board...
View ArticleWhere’s Susi? Airborne Orangutan Tracking with Python and React.js
TL;DR: You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. Where, how, and why do you start looking? Background About a...
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