RoboRaspbian Part 8: It’s Alive! Make Your Own RaspberryPi-Powered RoboSapien

It’s alive! My hybrid RoboSapien/RaspBerry Pi is up and running. Or at least shuffling.

Here’s how to build your own, along with the story of how I finally got mine…

RoboRaspbian Part 7: #Fail

So, quick recap. I’ve patched into the IR line on my V1 RoboSapien (RS) in order to connect, via a buffer circuit, a Raspberry Pi.

Santander and the Future of the Smart City

Investment managers will always tell you that past performance is no guide to future share prices. But history can always teach us lessons. Let me tell you about the future of the smart city by starting with a little story about the history of the…

RoboRaspbian Part 1: Genesis — RoboSapien plus Raspberry Pi equals RoboRaspbian

It’s project time again. I like making stuff. If I don’t make something fairly regularly, I get twitchy. So after a little hiatus I have picked up my soldering iron and cracked on with a little…

Is Social Media Good Or Bad?

Ah those wonderful binary choices born of radio phone-ins. I spent this morning defending social media following its shocking abuse in the Criado-Perez affair.

Is social media bad? Of course it isn’t. Normally I’d say something along the lines of “It’s…

Why Smart Watches Only Make Sense as Fashion Accessories

Better Batteries: How Nanotech Could Charge Your Smartphone in Seconds, and Keep it Running for a Month

The biggest failing of gadgets today is their power source: the battery. Though battery technology has advanced in the recent past, it hasn’t kept pace…

Don’t Trust Your Instincts: Why The Future Needs Logic

Karl Neder rejected Einstein’s theory of General Relativity because it was ugly. Compared to the instinctive beauty of Newtonian physics, complex field equations and curved space time seemed fussy and contrived.