After about a decade and a half, I finally found a reason to try my hand at making Easter eggs again. I decided to pull out my old Easter Egg moulds and dust them off. Well maybe not dust, but chocolate them off. Making chocolate bunnies and other animals is a slow business, but a The full story here…
Raspberry Pi to ESP32
A backcopy of Hackspace showed how to use the Raspberry Pi to an ESP 32, in order to control it via Python. Unfortunately the article was too old and the build command didn’t work. Rather than try and unpick the thing, I went to find a newer, working tutorial.
Catering for an Afternoon Tea
I volunteered for catering, and making notes so I do better next time.
Elderberry Wine Recipe
This time I have tried to be a bit more scientific about it. Note to self, please upload some pictures. Thank you Countryfile for the recipe. Here is my take on it. It takes a few hours – lots of messing around – don’t try and rush it.
Fun With Numbers
I love little number tricks. This page is to help me remember them. They’re very difficult to describe in words, and I don’t have any nice mathematical or graphical tools, so it is a bit hard to follow some of them. But go practice. They’re a lot of fun once you get the hang of The full story here…
Fruit Bowl From Newspaper
Here’s an idea to use up an old newspaper. Make it into a fruit bowl. It took a while, but was surprisingly easy really. Thanks Ikchha for the YouTube instructions. Link below.
Surviving a Broken Arm
Believe me, I do not want to do this again, but in case I do, here are some pointers. I’m not medical – go somewhere else for proper medical advice.
Elderberry Wine Retro
We tried two wines, one was bottled at the end of 2020 and the second bottled mid 2021. Interesting comparisons and some learnings.
Age Calculator App – Navigation
Really I need some serious navigation to be added to the Weather app. But there is already so much going on there, that it will be easier to learn about it on the Age Calculator. It is just a single screen, but it could be made nicer using fragments, and this will bring the navigation The full story here…
Age Calculator App – Data Binding
This carries on from the previous post of View Binding. So set up gradle in the same way as described there, if you have not already. And then lets get started.