Sam's Ramblings

I released my first game today on the Android Play Store. I plan to write about several hurdles I encountered along the way, but until then please download and play! It is my first foray into app development and was really a test-run for another game that I plan to...

I’ve been working on a rapid-prototype interface between Python and an Arduino, which I have called Rapiduino. It still needs some work, but a fully-functional prototype has been completed and added to GitHub. Rapiduino is a Python library (fully tested in Python 2.7 and 3.4) to allow Python code to...

I wanted to install the wavelet sharpen plug-in for GIMP on Linux Mint, which you can get from the GIMP website. However, I found that the instructions for installing didn’t work on Linux Mint (and according to the GIMP website, also Ubuntu and Fedora). The comments on the GIMP website...

I very quickly knocked up a bee hotel from some offcuts of wood that I had lying around. I have often seen solitary bees searching my walls for a place to nest but, due to the hard cement used, they have been unsuccessful. This should hopefully provide a good place...

The Ice Bucket Challenge has recently developed on social media as a “challenge” that you undertake to raise awareness for motor neurone disease. The idea is that you chuck a load of cold water over your head and donate to charity (or chuck a load of water over your head...