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Podcast Episode 4: The Future of Robotics
The Future of Robotics In this episode I explore the future of robots with robotics specialist Luke Hickton who is studying a Doctor of...
Nick Lansley
Nov 3, 20151 min read
Techfortesco server back online soon
UPDATE: All working now! Well done Adrian and the Tesco Labs engineering team. https://secure.techfortesco.com/tescoapiweb/login.aspx —...
Nick Lansley
Oct 26, 20151 min read
Kirisun DM680 – switching from Chinese to English plus digital demo (video)
This is a focused radio article for my fellow radio amateur enthusiasts 🙂 In this video I show you how to switch the on-screen menus...
Nick Lansley
Oct 18, 20151 min read


Podcast Episode 3: Innovation in Hackathons
Innovations in Hackathons I designed the methodology behind this hackathon, so in this episode I explore how I have changed the way that...
Nick Lansley
Sep 28, 20151 min read


A file compression experiment
I wanted to make an archive backup of my Parallels Windows 10 virtual machine file. The file itself is 54.51 GB, and I used Keka, a...
Nick Lansley
Sep 2, 20151 min read


Podcast Episode 2: Innovation in Data
Innovation in Data Data is important, but my passion is for open data. That’s data that is freely available in data files that you can...
Nick Lansley
Aug 31, 20151 min read
Tesco “Feet On The Floor” returns… without me!
I’ve just read in The Grocer that more than 7,000 Tesco head office staff are to be sent to work in-store between September and December...
Nick Lansley
Aug 24, 20151 min read


Judging the 24-hour Retail Week House of Fraser Hackathon
I’m delighted to be chairing the judging panel once again for the second hackathon event from Retail Week. Last year’s fantastic entries...
Nick Lansley
Aug 19, 20151 min read


Podcast Episode 1: The Culture of Innovation
Welcome to this first full episode of Innovation Lab! If a company describes itself as ‘innovative’, what are its employees actually...
Nick Lansley
Aug 16, 20151 min read


How to ‘force’ your Windows PC to upgrade to Windows 10 now
If you have a Windows 7 or 8 PC and you really can’t wait until Microsoft gets round to sending you the upgrade application, you can get...
Nick Lansley
Jul 31, 20151 min read
Innovation Lab – Episode 0: Introduction
Welcome to the very first show from Innovation Lab, entitled ” “Innovation Lab – Episode 0: Introduction”. The purpose of this first...
Nick Lansley
Jul 28, 20154 min read


Innovation Lab Podcast now airing!
I’m delighted to announce that the Innovation Lab show is now airing as a podcast. It will appear on iTunes shortly (fingers crossed)...
Nick Lansley
Jul 28, 20151 min read


New ‘Weather-Pi’ upgraded to Raspberry Pi 2
The new Raspberry PI 2 model B has arrived, and has just taken over from the the B+ Pi that has been running the weewx weather system for...
Nick Lansley
May 29, 20151 min read
The Joy of Async JavaScript
This weekend I wanted to ensure that lansley.com works well on all screens from standard web browsers to mobile and TV. After all I can...
Nick Lansley
Apr 4, 20153 min read


Can’t Code? Don’t Code!
Student coding at a hackthon event (Flickr: Photo by @matylda on Twitter) The digital economy brings with it great opportunities for...
Nick Lansley
Mar 27, 20152 min read


Did the solar eclipse affect the local weather?
Here on the south coast at Peacehaven near Brighton, today’s (20 March 2015) solar eclipse reached 85% of the sun being blocked by the...
Nick Lansley
Mar 20, 20152 min read
Leaving Tesco after 27 amazing years
Dear friends, I just wanted to let you know that Tesco have amicably accepted my request for voluntary redundancy. After 27 amazing years...
Nick Lansley
Mar 13, 20151 min read


Access live weather metrics from our new home!
The unit in this picture is the Davis Vantage Vue weather seneor, which measures wind speed and direction, rainfall, atmospheric...
Nick Lansley
Jan 17, 20151 min read


The Connected Home Project
It’s new year and time to get stuck into my big project for 2015 which is to experiment with technology that together form the ‘connected...
Nick Lansley
Jan 17, 20152 min read
Simply listen to an FM broadcast station using RTL-SDR
Building on my previous post of listening to radio by re-streaming it as a compressed stream, here is a simpler way of encoding the audio...
Nick Lansley
Oct 23, 20141 min read
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