The Swifts are coming 2026: BirdNet & BirdWeather

A slow trickle of swifts are returning to Britain

but by the end of this month, it will be a flood.

So its time to switch on our swift-caller & keep an eye on our 3 nests!

MG S5 ev: using the API #4

 I've enjoyed the journey but...

I'm unlikely to reach my planned destination.

I don't think the infrastructure is ready

MG S5 ev: using the API #3

Does my S5 stop maintaining the 12V battery when ev battery SoC drops to 20%?

There seems to be a lot of 'chatter' about electric vehicles based upon supposition.

Opinions posted on the net often get repeated, then eventually get peddled as fact.

MG S5 ev: using the API #2

 OK, so I got distracted...

...and I've been using api access to investigate the 12V system battery

but I often drift off-piste on projects like this!

MG S5 ev: using the API #1

 MG have an api for accessing car data

but it has not been made public

so if you want to use it, you have to hack it!

Playing with colour recognition #1

A Python tutorial on Colour Recognition recently grabbed my attention.

 

It looked like an interesting playground to step into, so...

...like any good Gambaser, I decided to write some code.

Police UK API: Local crime data with Gambas

In the UK our Police force have recently made crime data available via the net.

You can access monthly crime figures by category from their website.

But there is also a simple API available for you to carry out your own data analysis.

Gambas: working with JSON

The JSON file format is widely used by internet sites when returning data requested by an a.p.i. call.

It is relatively easy to handle JSON data in Gambas, once you have an understanding of its basic structure.

Here we use the Gambas method Json.Decode() in a couple of examples.

Exploring the ICBIT Bitcoin Exchange API

Just two weeks ago I knew nothing about Bitcoins, and practically nothing about JavaScript.

 

But having been asked to look at the ICBIT API I now know a little about both.

 

This post won't describe Bitcoins (start here) or teach you how to program in JavaScript (maybe start here). Its just about the ICBIT api (start here) which enables you to build applications centred around the ICBIT Bitcoin Exchange.