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OP-Z with Korg PadKontrol

I've been trying to get the Korg PadKontrol working with the OP-Z over USB for a week or two. Tested a few cables, and now tried a Kingston Nucleum USB hub. The manual is vague (and indeed a few folk on YouTube using them with the OP-Z and being very...

2020

I'm not quite sure when I last updated my site. The WayBackMachine is suggesting I launched the last incarnation sometime in early 2016, and there's been something like 12 updates. Epic. That site was supposed to be a landing page for the myriad range of social media platforms, micro-blogs and...

Internet of Things 2014 Forum

I got to spend yesterday at the IoT 2014 forum, in Cambridge, listening to some fantastic speakers and getting to meet lots of really interesting folk starting up, building businesses and engineering new technologies. Having made the epic move of developing a fresh business plan, and focusing solely on a...

3D Printing Server Parts

With some of the chassis we have in our datacentre, the majority of drive bays are designed for 3.5” HDD, so it’s a pain when we need to configure a lightweight server or appliance with an SSD. Whilst the chassis can be upgrade or modified to take 2....

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Bad blogger! Bad!

Yeah, I've been a bad blogger. No posts since November? I have, however, been busy with lots of lovely projects - many I'll try to post about over coming weeks. I've caught up with a few projects, shelved a few and started too many new ones. One that's taking pride...

I'm still here!

In the effort to break my 6-monthly posting, I'm going to start documenting my projects a little better and get some posted. I'm planning some mini-projects, redux of old projects and finishing some big projects... With access to 3D printers at work (www.makerbase.co.uk [http://www.makerbase.co....

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