Open Gauges: A Stepper Motor Wind Direction Gauge
The latest addition to Open Gauges is a 205 mm wall-mounted wind direction dial. It swaps the servo for a stepper motor and a hall sensor, giving a full 360 degrees, a much finer step and a smooth, eased movement as the wind shifts.
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Longmarsh: Mapping a Solar Farm and Data Centre for the Villages it Surrounds
Longmarsh Green Energy proposes solar panels, battery storage, new overhead lines and a 1 GW data centre campus across…
The Papers: The 2nd Album
Our second album, The Papers, was released on the 24th of September across all streaming platforms. Eight tracks, each…
Spatial Computing and the Phygital City: Towards Digital Habitation
Our latest paper is out in Urban Planning, open access and free to download. Spatial Computing and the Phygital City…
Color Weather: A Data Watch Face for the Pebble Time 2
Last October I made Just Weather, a black and white data face for the 144x168 screen of the Pebble 2 Duo. It did the…
Fenland: A weeWX Dashboard with forecast verification, ensemble models, climate records back to 1940 and finally, that tween...
In a previous post I wrote at length in Chasing the Tween: My 25-Year Obsession with Weather Data . The chase, for a…
City Clock: A City where the People Tell the Time
How an experiment in agent-based simulation went on to make a living breathing city.
Aqua Clock: Multi-Model Vibe Coding, Boids, and the Fish That Tell the Time
How an experiment in agent-based fish simulation, vibe coded with Claude and Gemini AI Studio, became a clock — and…
The Album: Place and Space
We are pleased to announce that the Album - Place and Space is now available across all streaming formats or to…
Stepper Motor Linear Data Gauge
The latest upload to the Open Gauges Github is a Linear Gauge, using a timing belt to provide Linear Stepper Motor…
Ships Lamp Wind Speed Gauge
Our MicroPython project turns a strip of NeoPixel LEDs into a “ship's lamp" style wind speed gauge. It connects to an…
Will AI Push the Human Planner to the Point of Irrelevance?
The title is, of course, controversial. The question, however, comes from the closing section of a 2020 paper by…
Just Weather for The Pebble Watch: Making a Data Watch Face
It's an exciting time to be a Pebble fan. After years of being kept alive by the dedicated Rebble community, the Pebble…