Started work on construction of the aluminium cradle for the camera. The aluminium came from B&Q of all places! Spied on one of my regular DIY trips at the weekend. There are three different peices of aluminium used to make the cradle -: The first is 2mm thick, 25mm wide and length 1000mm. The second… (read more)

An ATMega32 board has finally arrived in one piece and it seems to work. Well at least the LED lights come on when the power is attached. I’m going to have to go through a big learning curve to get this processor to do my bidding for me. On initial investigation it looks very possible… (read more)

Well I have got the first bits of kit together and the trick now is getting them to work. The first exciting part to arrive was the very small Gumstix Verdex XL6P computer. The size of this small embedded Linux computer has to be seen to be believed! The imagery on the Gumstix website really… (read more)