André F Bruton

Welcome to my blog. A place for me to post interesting things I would like to share.

 

  • Using a Raspberry Pi to create an Ouranos Sky Chart

    Using a Raspberry Pi to create an Ouranos Sky Chart

    An Ouranos Sky Chart is an image made from a composite of images taken every hour of the day of the sky. Ouranos (anglicized as Uranus) was the primordial god of the sky.

    September 12th, 2020 | Comments | Share

    Tags : raspberrypi weather

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  • Reducing the size of a USB Stick Drive

    Reducing the size of a USB Stick Drive

    Someone asked on a local Facebook group where she could find a 2Gb USB stick for her sewing machine as the machine only recognises a max of 2Gb. I know it will be a battle to find something that small, but I thought this would be easy solve...

    September 28th, 2018 | Comments | Share

    Tags : sewingsoftware doscommands utilities

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  • Connecting the Catalex MicroSD Card Adaptor to an Arduino UNO

    Connecting the Catalex MicroSD Card Adaptor to an Arduino UNO

    I bought the Catalex MicroSD Card Adaptor from Banggood. It was cheap and the price usually includes postage. I tried to connect it using the standard SD library. I just could not get it to work. This is how I finally got it working.

    September 10th, 2017 | Comments | Share

    Tags : arduino electronics

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