Elsewhere

Here are some other websites I've been reading recently (I'm keeping track of them with the excellent del.icio.us). A lot of them are techie, because that seems to be what I remember to tag as I'm reading them. No promises that they'll be interesting to you!

FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right

If you're a stat geek and interested in the US elections (I'm both), you'll *love* this site.

Outdoor Omni antenna 15dB

Need one of these for Kisiizi, I think.

Wireless Networking - Cables and Pigtails

Need an RP-SMA to N-Type connector for the Omni antenna I'd like (below)

Neutral Density Graduated Filter

I had a couple of nice shots where the photo was exposed for the sky - this is a great way to simulate an ND in photoshop.

4 element yagi PMR446 MHz

Possibly useful for the hospital - thinking about hooking a pmr radio into the telephone paging system.

VHF/UHF Yagi Antenna Design

Incredibly useful form to plug in your wavelength / antenna design and get the measurements for a yagi. Even includes the estimated gain. (I'm looking at one for a PMR radio for the hospital).

LM2917 - Frequency to Voltage Converter

One of the things I'm looking at for Kisiizi is an inline power controller, which would measure the frequency of the mains and switch off the hot water if it gets too low. This IC might be useful for measuring the frequency.

Panda - Open source video platform

No use for this, but having a self-contained open source means of allowing people to upload video is very neat.

Edimax EW-7318USg on Ubuntu

We've just bought one of thee USB wifi sticks to take to Uganda - useful detachable aerial, good range apparentlly. Edimax distribute binary drivers for windows / OSX, but these instructions for getting the stick working on Linux (ubuntu) look really useful.

Wifi Antenna - Parabolic Template

Love this. I'm going to try it on our temporary wifi link.

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Windpump A beach in moonlight Ljubljana Cathedral View from table mountain towards Cape Point Fynbos Happy Cottage The sun on Tavistock (2) Almost-full stack of DVDRs Ugandan brick-making A frog

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