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Scout STEM/Science Camp
After some months planning and organisation, at the weekend (17th to 19th March 2017) I ran a Science Camp for around 50 Scouts at a local Scout Camp Site starting Friday night and finishing Sunday afternoon. Also being a STEM Ambassador its another part of spreading the importance of STEM subjects to young people. STEM…
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Rise of the Cobot
Robotics have been around for many years, with the idea of robots helping humans being depicted in Science Fiction in early books, comics and films. Robots have been evolving with design and use as we have been working with them to carry out various tasks. So what is a cobot? Wikipedia defines Cobots as: A…
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Stringing along the Scammers
Its always great when you get a phone call saying “Hello, I’m calling from Microsoft and we have noticed a problem with your computer”. My inner kid springs to life and its time to string on the scammers. Unfortunately my fun was cut a bit short after the first couple of questions when I was…
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Basic Input – Then and Now
I spent part of today helping to run a STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) session with some pupils from a local school. One part of the day involved programming in Python and I set a project of a simple higher or lower game based on a random number generated. Running the session took me back…
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Site Reliability Engineering by Google
Having read this book previously its good to see that it is now available from Google on-line for reading/reference. The book itself is a collection of articles and essays on how Google run and maintain their computing systems by their Site Reliability Engineers. The book can be accessed at https://landing.google.com/sre/book/ List of the Table of…
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Digital Tools- Voice Activated Assistants
Does the Voice Activated Assistant have a place in the business? Yes it does. There are lots of voice activated assistants available to help us with our daily tasks. Some are built into mobile devices and some are purchased as specific items. The key is that they all respond to commands and can interact with…
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How secure is your home in the digital age?
Reports from CES 2017 is seeing some great advancements in consumer tech coming out in the journey to digital. Coupled with some recent reports from around the web I have been thinking about the question “How secure is my home in the digital age?” There are several ways into your home in the digital age.…
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Raspberry PI on the PC & Mac
Raspberry Pi have released a desktop/Laptop version of their PIXEL running on Debian Linux – bootable via DVD or USB Stick, once you have downloaded and built the media. Its good to see a lot of people enthused with installing Linux onto their old hardware sitting around. I decided to try this myself on an…
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Chronodex 2017 (Jun-Jun)
The first half of the 2017 Chronodex has been released by Patrick Ng. Available at: https://app.box.com/s/rcthk406yjp0obd3263nwsphk53h4nyk There is still a place for a manual diary and journalling using a pen rather than a blog post as discussed here No Batteries Required: My Personal Journal. I am now on my 19th Journal and still going strong.
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IoT Best Practice Guidelines – Many more out there…
The IOT Security Foundation has released three best practice guidelines on: IOT Security Compliance Framework Connected Consumer Products Vulnerability Disclosure I am currently reading through these with interest, especially the paper on Vulnerability Disclosure. Something that some companies do well and and some not so. I can see companies legal departments advising on this one,…
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Max Hemingway 