That’s it, they have fledged and we are left with an empty nest. Thank you to Sheila for letting me know as she was privileged to witness them go and watch it live. Unfortunately, I had some technical difficulties and[…]
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Early birds
After checking last year’s dates, I can see our blue tits are running three weeks earlier this year. I also calculate they are only a week away from fledging. So watch carefully in the next few days. My discovery also[…]
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Any day now…
The blue tit young are now wandering around the birdbox and showing signs of being ready to leave. They must be fledging any day now. Thankfully the weather has improved. Don’t forget to watch the latest videos on the Fledgecam[…]
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Automatic Blinds
I have finally got round to implementing a project I have wanted to do for a few years: Automate my log cabin blinds. The blinds are (well used to be ) opened and closed by twisting a perspex pole, which[…]
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Minecraft Controlled Christmas Tree 2018
In 2018, myself and Dlljs have teamed up with Brocraft Gaming to make an even better Minecraft Controlled Christmas Tree. Excitingly, the Raspberry Pi foundation kindly blogged about it Some people are asking why did we did this? One of[…]
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Web Server
Summary So I have a need for web hosting, not just for my own blog but also for a Scout group I’m involved in. There are cloud based web hosting options, either paid for, or free but with adverts. However,[…]
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The Intercom
You are sitting comfortably in your log cabin at the end of the garden watching the rain stream down the window blissfully unaware that your dinner is ready but no one wants to get wet walking down the garden to[…]
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Log Cabin Control System
Summary The log cabin control system is an ongoing project to use a Raspberry Pi to control various environmental aspects of the Log Cabin described below. It started with just using it to control the heating. It has moved on from there[…]
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