[Blackpool] Saturday 18th July

Fri Jul 17 21:15:41 UTC 2015

Damn, knew I should have consulted you first!  The jury is already in and I'll only use mine when I'm on messy jobs like gardening and painting.  To be fair, that's what I bought them for, but I don't like them you would never go anywhere where people know you wearing them because you look like you have some tech from the first 1980s Star Trek film hanging off your head.  
My second Amazon Prime buy was fireTV stick (£19.99), mmmyeah happy so far with it.
Third buy was a big pump up sprayer to deploy chemical warfare in the garden, not used it yet, but spear and jackson so I'm sure it's tops for around £5.

Shock horrors but I can't think of anything currently on the aliexpress or eBay wish list, I have a pile of toys yet to be played with. 

Be good to see you tomorrow James, I'll bring my honking huge earphones incase you do come.

A > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:44:45 +0100
> From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> CC: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Saturday 18th July
> 
> Funnily enough, I've just bought some Bluetooth earphones, too!
> 
> The Mpow earphones appear to be the Soundpeats QY7s. I was put off them
> because of their size and ended up getting the Bluedio Q5s for an
> extortionate £7.63. There appears to be two main designs of Bluetooth
> earphones - integrated units like the Q5s and QY7s, and then discrete units
> like the Bluedio N2 and S2, which are much more like traditional earphones
> but with a fairly chunky Bluetooth unit attached to the cable. Although
> they look better, I decided against these because I thought that the weight
> of the unit might cause it to hang from one side of my head/neck and be a
> bit of a nuisance. Hopefully they'll arrive in the next couple of weeks.
> I'm not expecting amazing results, but if they serve me well enough for
> bike rides I'll be happy. A nice addition is the microphone, although I
> reserve judgement on how effective it is!
> 
> Other Aliexpress acquisitions this week include:
> 
>    - 100 mixed colour LEDs for £0.92
>    - Nexus 4 gym/running armband for £1.99
>    - Arduino starter kit (resistors, potentiometer, switches etc) for £1.96
>    - 65 jumper wires for £0.86
>    - Mirrored aviator sunglasses for £0.86
> 
> My 'wish list' is steadily growing, too...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> James
> 
> On 17 July 2015 at 09:59, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > Thanks Mike, I'll see you there and I'll be at the Jam.
> >
> > My cheapo DHT11 digital temp and humidity sensors arrived.  I found a
> > library online and got them working with the ESP8266.  Those ESP8266 boards
> > with the batteries attached Mike Hewitt and I are using use the ESP12E, the
> > E variant giving more GPIO, although on these boards these extra pins are
> > connected to a RGB LED and a row of single colour LEDs which are not that
> > useful for what we are wanting to do.  The attached LDR is kind of nice to
> > have as another data point and I got that working too, streaming data along
> > side the temp and humidity.  To get the LDR reading you just need to
> > analogRead(A0), whereas on the ESP12 I was getting success using
> > analogRead(15) iirc, which does not work on the ESP12E.
> >
> > The library I used to get the DHT11 going is here:
> > https://www.adafruit.com/products/386
> >
> > I also got one of the ESP8266 library examples working on the new boards
> > where it can connect to wifi and stream data to an ip address and port.  I
> > wrote something in Delphi on my windows laptop to listen on a port to what
> > the ESP8266 is sending.  It doesn't do anything with it yet but I can see
> > the data and know it will work.
> >
> > So I feel I have the difficult two thirds of the solution sorted, they
> > just need putting together in one piece of code, and the third bit is what
> > to do with the data once you have it in one place.  I wonder if that one
> > place should be on a machine in my home or do I pipe it straight on to the
> > net like Mike Hewitt uses Xively.  I am not sure where I am going with
> > this, another chat with Mike might help.
> >
> >
> > I also refreshed my ESP8266 board stuff in the Arduino IDE to see if I
> > could get the servo library working, but no success.  I need to read their
> > GitHub site properly perhaps to work out what I missed.  I didn't really
> > have time to bottom it out.
> >
> >
> > Headphones corner for James... I got pulled in by Amazon Prime day and
> > bought some MPOW Swift Bluetooth headphones (£15).  I got them for when I
> > am decorating and gardening, being an Apple fanboy I cancelled my Spotify
> > and have gone all in on Apple music... which I am loving and it's making me
> > listen to music more.  Review of the headphones after 1 gardening session:
> > the earbuds are big, like too big it's a Lt Uhura moment sticking them in,
> > but they didn't feel uncomfortable.  The Bluetooth pairing works
> > flawlessly.  Sonically they lack bass and just feeble all round compared to
> > my AKG K451 for music, for podcasts and audio books they are very usable.
> >
> >
> > (I will get around to finishing and writing a few more of the ESP8266
> > things on the group blog...)
> >
> > A
> >
> > > From: mikehull2008 at hotmail.co.uk
> > > To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:59:33 +0100
> > > Subject: [Blackpool] Saturday 18th July
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > Tyldesley Road open Saturday from 10am
> > >
> > > Note, we are lkely to close around 12 noon as there is a Raspberry Jam
> > this week.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Mike Hull
> > >
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