Innovations in Hackathons I designed the methodology behind this hackathon, so in this episode I explore how I have changed the way that...

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...

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...

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...

I’m delighted to be chairing the judging panel once again for the second hackathon event from Retail Week. Last year’s fantastic entries...

Welcome to this first full episode of Innovation Lab! If a company describes itself as ‘innovative’, what are its employees actually...

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...

Welcome to the very first show from Innovation Lab, entitled ” “Innovation Lab – Episode 0: Introduction”. The purpose of this first...

I’m delighted to announce that the Innovation Lab show is now airing as a podcast. It will appear on iTunes shortly (fingers crossed)...

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...

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...

Student coding at a hackthon event (Flickr: Photo by @matylda on Twitter) The digital economy brings with it great opportunities for...

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...

Dear friends, I just wanted to let you know that Tesco have amicably accepted my request for voluntary redundancy. After 27 amazing years...

The unit in this picture is the Davis Vantage Vue weather seneor, which measures wind speed and direction, rainfall, atmospheric...

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...

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...

* UPDATED to reflect reader experiences * I’ve been playing with a great command-line software-defined radio command called RTL_FM (part...

Earlier in this blog I’ve shown you an FM signal, so now it’s time to show you the newer digital equivalent! Digital Audio Broadcasting...

In the UK and other European Union countries, a set of radio channels have been allocated for use by the general public licence-free....