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    Small Business Owners Need to Invest in These Technologies
    Nick Lansley
    • Jul 16
    • 3 min

    Small Business Owners Need to Invest in These Technologies

    by guest writer Tina Martin Photo via Pexels How can small businesses afford to invest in tech? It’s a question many entrepreneurs are...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jun 25
    • 2 min

    OpenAI's poetry writing shows the power of GPT-3 models

    AI is getting good! I have joined OpenAI's beta programme with access to their GPT-3 AI service, and I asked it to write me a poem. My...
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    Strategies for Setting Up Your Home Office
    Nick Lansley
    • Jan 14
    • 3 min

    Strategies for Setting Up Your Home Office

    Michael Stephenson authored this guest post. You can reach out to him at info@theentrepeneurhub.com If you’re getting a home-based...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jul 7, 2021
    • 3 min

    Must-Have Apps for Small Business Owners

    by guest author Tina Martin “There’s an app for that!” We spend a lot of time on our phones every day, both at work and at home. If you...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 5 min

    Forget college degrees? Employers are recruiting students direct from online tech courses

    https://soundcloud.com/innovationlabradio/il-2020-09-01 Hello and welcome back to innovation lab – your guide to the world of...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Podcast: How To Work From Home

    Working from home has now become the ‘New Normal’ thanks to Coronavirus and self-isolation. In this episode, Nick is joined by top...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Podcast: Utopian Destinations

    In this launch episode of the new Innovation Lab 2020 podcast, Nick explores an innovative technique that can greatly improve the...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 12, 2020
    • 1 min

    Podcast back on-air 16 March 2020

    Great news – one of my new decade resolutions was to get the Innovation Lab podcast back on the air again and everything is in place for...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jan 12, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Daily Peacehaven Timelapse Video

    A couple of posts ago I wrote about the ‘WeatherPi’ Raspberry Pi that collects the latest weather readings every 10 minutes and make a...
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    Decoding TV Teddy – Part Four: The 2018 Hifi Version?
    Nick Lansley
    • Jan 9, 2019
    • 5 min

    Decoding TV Teddy – Part Four: The 2018 Hifi Version?

    In this ‘Decoding TV Teddy’ series of articles, I’ve found that the best audio bandwidth available is no better than that of an AM radio....
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    Nick Lansley
    • Dec 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Live weather data and images!

    I wanted to take the peaceful few days between Christmas and New Year to really refresh the data collected from the local weather that...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    Be part of the HEALTH-e-HACK hackathon @ Food Matters Live 2018 (ExCeL, London on 20–22 November 201

    FoodMaestro and Nielsen Brandbank are hosting their very first #hackathon at Food Matters Live 2018, and I’m delighted to be hosting and...
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    MySql 8 and PHP mysqli_connect login failure – fixed on OSX
    Nick Lansley
    • Aug 29, 2018
    • 2 min

    MySql 8 and PHP mysqli_connect login failure – fixed on OSX

    If you develop on a Mac as I do, you’ll want to get up to date with the latest versions of the software! So I installed a fresh new copy...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Aug 16, 2018
    • 2 min

    My failed A-Level results found me my vocation

    1983: 35 years ago this morning I received my A-level results. I needed a ‘B, B, C’ in Maths, Physics and Electronic Systems respectively...
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    Nick Lansley
    • May 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    Decoding TV Teddy Part Four – The Search For Encoding That Works

    If you’ve been following my articles on reverse-engineering the TV Teddy soundtrack embedded in the video picture, then you may have...
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    Wi-Fi Mesh ‘Whole Home’ Networks really work!
    Nick Lansley
    • Apr 27, 2018
    • 4 min

    Wi-Fi Mesh ‘Whole Home’ Networks really work!

    I have finally fixed the Wi-Fi! Since the BT engineer had to rewire our telephone cable to the back of the house, getting Wi-Fi signal to...
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    Decoding TV Teddy – Part Three: Encoding a new TV Teddy Video
    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 24, 2018
    • 8 min

    Decoding TV Teddy – Part Three: Encoding a new TV Teddy Video

    In part two I successfully decoded the TV Teddy audio embedded in a TV Teddy video, and I’ve watched the sync’d playback with the...
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    Decoding TV Teddy – Part Two: Programming and Audio Output
    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 18, 2018
    • 7 min

    Decoding TV Teddy – Part Two: Programming and Audio Output

    As a purely fun and academic exercise, I’m going attempt to decode the TV Teddy audio track embedded in a TV Teddy video programme, and...
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    Decoding TV Teddy – Part One: Discovery
    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 18, 2018
    • 6 min

    Decoding TV Teddy – Part One: Discovery

    I’ve always been fascinated by technologies embedded in products – especially toys which use tech to provide interaction with the child...
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    TechForTesco QR code appears on Midsomer Murders episode
    Nick Lansley
    • Dec 11, 2017
    • 1 min

    TechForTesco QR code appears on Midsomer Murders episode

    An eagle-eyed TV viewer has contacted me to say that, when he scanned a QR code in an episode of the ITV detective drama Midsomer Murders...
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