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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 2, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 compr...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Aug 31, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 dow...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Aug 24, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 ...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Aug 19, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 ...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Aug 16, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 doin...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jul 31, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 ...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jul 28, 2015
    • 4 min

    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 epis...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jul 28, 2015
    • 1 min

    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) bu...
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    Nick Lansley
    • May 29, 2015
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Apr 4, 2015
    • 3 min

    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 h...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 27, 2015
    • 2 min

    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 indi...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 20, 2015
    • 2 min

    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 mo...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Mar 13, 2015
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jan 17, 2015
    • 1 min

    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 pressure...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Jan 17, 2015
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Oct 23, 2014
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 27, 2014
    • 3 min

    Using RTL_FM and FFMPEG to stream radio audio over network

    * UPDATED to reflect reader experiences * I’ve been playing with a great command-line software-defined radio command called RTL_FM (part ...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 24, 2014
    • 2 min

    Radio signals are beautiful: DAB Radio

    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 (...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 13, 2014
    • 2 min

    Comparison of Analogue (NFM) and Digital (FDMA) Signals in PMR446 band

    In the UK and other European Union countries, a set of radio channels have been allocated for use by the general public licence-free. Know...
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    Nick Lansley
    • Sep 11, 2014
    • 2 min

    Radio Signals Are Beautiful: SDR and FM

    As a radio ham I have recently become interested in a new branch of the hobby called Software Defined Radio (SDR). SDR is a radio system w...
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