Andy S-C
@andysc.bsky.social
IBM Distinguished Engineer. Keen Maker and long distance runner. Co-inventor of MQTT
A final sad farewell to my last three broken Psion 3a’s.
Psionara, one might say!
Psionara, one might say!
September 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A final sad farewell to my last three broken Psion 3a’s.
Psionara, one might say!
Psionara, one might say!
With nothing better to do on a holiday Monday, I finally got round to breathing life into the Antikythera of Weather!
August 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
With nothing better to do on a holiday Monday, I finally got round to breathing life into the Antikythera of Weather!
Four, count them, four grocers’ apostrophe’s ! I can hardly bear to sit here!
July 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Four, count them, four grocers’ apostrophe’s ! I can hardly bear to sit here!
My pet goose grew too fat to squeeze through his #Omlet chicken house door. So I hacked two of them together and NTP-synched the time clocks (and added a 3D printed rain guard) :)
July 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My pet goose grew too fat to squeeze through his #Omlet chicken house door. So I hacked two of them together and NTP-synched the time clocks (and added a 3D printed rain guard) :)
We've all been there... (if you live on the Isle of Wight, anyway)
Can't help thinking there should be a space.
Can't help thinking there should be a space.
July 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
We've all been there... (if you live on the Isle of Wight, anyway)
Can't help thinking there should be a space.
Can't help thinking there should be a space.
🎶If you’re going to Isle of Wigh-i-t, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!🎶
Not sure if this is for the festival, or a wedding @redfunnelferry.bsky.social ?!
Not sure if this is for the festival, or a wedding @redfunnelferry.bsky.social ?!
June 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
🎶If you’re going to Isle of Wigh-i-t, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!🎶
Not sure if this is for the festival, or a wedding @redfunnelferry.bsky.social ?!
Not sure if this is for the festival, or a wedding @redfunnelferry.bsky.social ?!
I don’t make a habit of taking photos of, or posting online, toilet signs, but look at the drop shadow on this one!
I can feel a whole range of trompe l’oeil signage coming on…
I can feel a whole range of trompe l’oeil signage coming on…
June 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I don’t make a habit of taking photos of, or posting online, toilet signs, but look at the drop shadow on this one!
I can feel a whole range of trompe l’oeil signage coming on…
I can feel a whole range of trompe l’oeil signage coming on…
Ohhh, THAT's how you use a door wedge! 😂
Wincing at the thought of the pressure that's putting on those poor old hinges!
Wincing at the thought of the pressure that's putting on those poor old hinges!
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Ohhh, THAT's how you use a door wedge! 😂
Wincing at the thought of the pressure that's putting on those poor old hinges!
Wincing at the thought of the pressure that's putting on those poor old hinges!
Pinch and a punch for the first of the month... and time to rearrange the tiles... ;)
June 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Pinch and a punch for the first of the month... and time to rearrange the tiles... ;)
I don't think #BT are over here yet from the other place, but I see their SMS parsing regex script hasn't improved in the era of LLMs and NLU chatbots!
This is the same advanced text parser that only responds to "ADVISOR" (in all caps), if you need to get a person to phone you.
This is the same advanced text parser that only responds to "ADVISOR" (in all caps), if you need to get a person to phone you.
May 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I don't think #BT are over here yet from the other place, but I see their SMS parsing regex script hasn't improved in the era of LLMs and NLU chatbots!
This is the same advanced text parser that only responds to "ADVISOR" (in all caps), if you need to get a person to phone you.
This is the same advanced text parser that only responds to "ADVISOR" (in all caps), if you need to get a person to phone you.
I have to admit I was seduced by the 128-bit @ifixit.com kit mentioned in the @pimoroni.com instructions!
May 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I have to admit I was seduced by the 128-bit @ifixit.com kit mentioned in the @pimoroni.com instructions!
You were right! @pimoroni.com please note ;)
May 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
You were right! @pimoroni.com please note ;)
I thought my #Pi5 deserved a decent case … so now it’s got one. Thanks to @pimoroni.com !
May 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I thought my #Pi5 deserved a decent case … so now it’s got one. Thanks to @pimoroni.com !
Last time I touched a canister of C4, I was on a US Army range in Virginia, and there was a car (briefly) involved... but that's *definitely* another story ;).
Today they were just handing them out at Waterloo station!
Looks just as dangerous, though - I think I'll resist the urge to open it.
Today they were just handing them out at Waterloo station!
Looks just as dangerous, though - I think I'll resist the urge to open it.
April 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Last time I touched a canister of C4, I was on a US Army range in Virginia, and there was a car (briefly) involved... but that's *definitely* another story ;).
Today they were just handing them out at Waterloo station!
Looks just as dangerous, though - I think I'll resist the urge to open it.
Today they were just handing them out at Waterloo station!
Looks just as dangerous, though - I think I'll resist the urge to open it.
I know one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and all that, but today was the first green shoots of… negative electricity bills :)
That means @octopus.energy paid me today! #solarPV
That means @octopus.energy paid me today! #solarPV
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I know one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and all that, but today was the first green shoots of… negative electricity bills :)
That means @octopus.energy paid me today! #solarPV
That means @octopus.energy paid me today! #solarPV
Smiley sunny faces on the weather machine - that’s what we like to see :) Good for the PV!
@pavsmith.bsky.social
@pavsmith.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Smiley sunny faces on the weather machine - that’s what we like to see :) Good for the PV!
@pavsmith.bsky.social
@pavsmith.bsky.social
Can’t help thinking this is some kind of elaborate allegory for current world events :/
February 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Can’t help thinking this is some kind of elaborate allegory for current world events :/
First-World problems: the API token has expired on my PV inverter, so the funky display of battery level I built has stopped working!
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
First-World problems: the API token has expired on my PV inverter, so the funky display of battery level I built has stopped working!
You’re not the first person to have suggested this, so, behold: the 5-ring circus.
It will combine rain, wind, temperature and time in one very confusing mass of colour!
I haven’t written the code to drive it yet, though… it’s high on the list!
It will combine rain, wind, temperature and time in one very confusing mass of colour!
I haven’t written the code to drive it yet, though… it’s high on the list!
January 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
You’re not the first person to have suggested this, so, behold: the 5-ring circus.
It will combine rain, wind, temperature and time in one very confusing mass of colour!
I haven’t written the code to drive it yet, though… it’s high on the list!
It will combine rain, wind, temperature and time in one very confusing mass of colour!
I haven’t written the code to drive it yet, though… it’s high on the list!
and (I think) prettiest of all, is the Wind Dial, which synesthetically converts wind direction into colours - red west, green east (like in sailing), blue south and white north... and all points in between, so SW is magenta (blue + red), SE is cyan (green + blue), etc :)
January 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
and (I think) prettiest of all, is the Wind Dial, which synesthetically converts wind direction into colours - red west, green east (like in sailing), blue south and white north... and all points in between, so SW is magenta (blue + red), SE is cyan (green + blue), etc :)
I've also built the "Three Ring Circus" (image courtesy of @pavsmith.bsky.social, for whom I built it), which shows today and the next two days - great for planning your weekend's activities on a Friday!
January 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I've also built the "Three Ring Circus" (image courtesy of @pavsmith.bsky.social, for whom I built it), which shows today and the next two days - great for planning your weekend's activities on a Friday!
Still a day of two halves, 12 hours of rain followed by 12 hours of drizzle #TheWeatherCompany
January 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Still a day of two halves, 12 hours of rain followed by 12 hours of drizzle #TheWeatherCompany
Looks like it’s a day of two halves! #RainsComin. / @pavsmith.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Looks like it’s a day of two halves! #RainsComin. / @pavsmith.bsky.social