richardhawthorn

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   by richardhawthorn 7mo ago

   I'm going to convert my living room into a Faraday cage, only bringing in pre downloaded content via hard drive. That should solve this problem. Although I'm not sure my family will be too happy.
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   by richardhawthorn 9mo ago

   We switched to a matrix partly for price, partly for improved reliability. Regular RGB LEDs are a lot cheaper than the WS2812, around 6x cheaper when we made the decision to switch, which adds up when you have 768 of them. WS2812 LEDs are m
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   by richardhawthorn 9mo ago

   Thanks, we've documented how some of our products work, where we get the data, the manufacturing process, and how to write/upload your own code to your board. We should have a couple more technical posts released this year as we u
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   by richardhawthorn 9mo ago

   Hi everyone, Richard here, the creator of these traintrackr boards. It's great to see this on the front page! I've been designing PCBs for years, and designed over 250 at last count. We have a couple of products in the pipeline to
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   by richardhawthorn 2y ago

   They recently increased their domain renewal pricing, and as others have said they don't make those prices very easy to find. I moved some .co.uk domains to them a couple of years ago and was surprised when my first bill came in. Their
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   by richardhawthorn 3y ago

   1nce [0] and Hologram [1] offer low cost SIM cards for these type of applications. 1nce for example charges €10 for 500MB of data which lasts 10 years. Assuming you are economical with the data it's €1 a year, which is a very appealing
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   by richardhawthorn 6y ago

   The MTA have been behind other rapid transit networks when it comes to making their data available. You can get arrival prediction information on all stops/lines now through their API, but that wasn't the case until recently. Th
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   by richardhawthorn 6y ago

   I've been looking for something like this for a while to organise photos from my phone, also without success. I hold all my photos locally and then securely sync them to a remote NAS. My photo album folder naming structure is slightly
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   by richardhawthorn 6y ago

   The London boards are for sale in the US - https://www.traintrackr.io/product/ Paris is certainly on the list for future maps.
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    by richardhawthorn 6y ago

    Hi, Richard here from Traintrackr For the MBTA in Boston we did this, but their system is much less complex than London - https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/product/mbta4
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    by richardhawthorn 6y ago

    Hi, Richard here from Traintrackr As others have mentioned, there are more trains running than there are station LEDs, so in central London the LEDs would almost always be on, which didn't look as good. For the MBTA in Boston we added
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    by richardhawthorn 10y ago

    It looks like AliExpress have put some of their prices up in the last week, so they can "reduce" them for this sale. The sale price seems to match exactly the price I was seeing last week. I noticed this for a few random items I h
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    Tiny USB Hub for the Raspberry Pi Zero(deluxecapacitor.com)

    1 points by richardhawthorn 11y ago|0 comments