Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Electric Vehicles: and other related mysteries

 A few months ago we bought our first ev

Its an MG S5 and we bloody love it!

But after 55 years of driving a variety of petrol & diesel powered cars & vans, there are quite a few new things to learn.

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Swift Bricks

Our swift nesting capacity is increasing...

as we've just added a couple of bricks.

It wasn't completely straightforward.

Monday, 24 November 2025

Dashcam: power from 5Volts?

Can I run a dashcam from a 5V USB supply?

 

Its a simple question...

...but I struggled to get a simple answer.

Saturday, 8 November 2025

BirdNet-Pi Species Stats: post analysis graphing

 

I like graphs!

 

And I like the annual count-by-month bar graph in Species Stats

But I’m less keen on the hourly chart.

Saturday, 4 October 2025

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Linux Fan Running At Full Speed!

I must have had this problem 2 or 3 years

It started after a routine software update

And today I finally got around to investigating why.

Friday, 5 September 2025

BirdNet Systems Testing #1

I thought this would be easy

 Just run BirdNet-Pi alondside BirdNet-Go

Then choose which system to use in the future.