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Company Involvements

I’m an investor in several business (and mentor to some) which include: DevicePilot – Chair Service Assurance is a key activity in the Telecoms world but the Internet of Things hasn’t quite reached the same level of maturity yet and many IoT services are quite poorly maintained. DevicePilot is correcting this with their world-leading service. Pilgrim Beart (CEO) is an …

.NET Micro Framework Web Server Unreliability

I have built a couple of home-automation devices using the Netduino Plus 2 and, until fairly recently, was pretty happy with them. Certainly the process of development using the .Net MicroFramework is really excellent – it is nothing short of miraculous to be able to debug embedded code in a desktop environment. BUT neither of the devices was totally reliable …

drawing straight lines with a Polargraph

Well, I have been busy with other things but hankering to get the Polargraph I got as a kit from Sandy Noble to plot lines as straight as possible.  The process wasn’t as simple as I’d expected for quite a number of reasons including, as often seems to be the case these days, an overestimation of my ability to remember …