Psychedelic Dinosaur

The Speed of Light

Posted by Sancho on August 11th, 2010

I haven’t posted anything for a while so it’s time for some useless trivia.

The speed of light is 1.8026175×10^12 furlongs per fortnight.

My interest in GPS

Posted by Sancho on February 7th, 2010

Lots of the electronics projects I create are based around GPS, so I thought I’d take a little time to explain how I became interested in GPS and why so many of my projects are GPS based. Read more »

HI Spectrum

Posted by Sancho on January 5th, 2010

HISpectrum demonstrates the necessity for integration of the weak signals received by a radio telescope

Minesweeper

Posted by Sancho on December 26th, 2009

A web version of the classic game of minesweeper. Easy option only, 10×10 grid with 10 bombs randomly placed.

USB GPS Receiver

Posted by Sancho on December 26th, 2009

This device is a simple GPS receiver that plugs into the USB port and outputs standard NMEA data. The USB GPS Receiver was designed to meet a few simple requirements:

Output standard NMEA strings to the host computer via USB
Smallest possible size
Integrated antenna

Boxes III

Posted by Sancho on December 17th, 2009

Boxes III is a traditional game of boxes. Each player takes a turn to draw a wall. If the wall completes a box then the player who built the last wall wins that box. The winner is the player with the most boxes once all boxes have been won.

FLC v5.0

Posted by Sancho on December 17th, 2009

FLC v5.0 is the downloadable version of the Focal Length Converter and Angle of View Calculator and is available for Windows, MAC and Linux.

Angle of View Calculator – Part 2

Posted by Sancho on December 17th, 2009

The angle of view calculator finds the focal length required to capture a given angle of view (in degrees) in a given film format. Simply enter the angle of view required and film format into the appropriate boxes and click on Calculate to see the results.

Angle of View Calculator – Part 1

Posted by Sancho on December 17th, 2009

The angle of view calculator finds the angle of view (in degrees) for a given focal length in a given film format. Simply enter the focal length and film format into the appropriate boxes and click on Calculate to see the results.

Focal Length Converter

Posted by Sancho on December 16th, 2009

The focal length converter is a tool used to compare the equivalent focal length of lenses between various different film or CCD sensor sizes. Since the aspect ratio of each film type is potentially different four results are given; width, height, diagonal and the average of the results.