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Dell mini 10v netbook (mini review)
Sun, 07/03/2010 - 21:00

I spend about 3 hours commuting most working days and although this gives me plenty of time to catchup on my technical reading I've been thinking that it would be good to have a small laptop/netbook so I could do some coding too. I've tried using my work 15" Dell Precision laptop for this but it's too big for the cramped tube seats so I've been looking for a small and cheap "commute compute" device. I finally decided to give the Dell mini 10v a try.

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Goodbye SPIP; Hello drupal
Wed, 06/01/2010 - 11:38

After months of procrastination, over the Christmas break I finally got around to converting my site from running SPIP to running drupal. SPIP is easy to use and configure and quite good at what it's aimed at - on-line magazines. However, I never really got on with with it and got the site set up the way I wanted.

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Getting started and physical assembly
Wed, 06/01/2010 - 01:42

The goal of this project was to construct a low-cost expandable robot platform that Aurorans members can build on without a lot of hardware. Danny and I reckoned that most technology enthusiasts would have a laptop and using a laptop gives the advantage of a familiar environment for for use and development of the software for the robot. Besides the laptop and some standard rechargeable batteries the components required for version 1 are:

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Welcome
Mon, 04/01/2010 - 20:54

Welcome to my personal web site.

I've just finished migrating all the content from SPIP to drupal 6 and things (such as the page design) are still rough around the edges. I have set up redirects for some of the more popular pages. If you've followed a link here and were expecting to see something else it probably means I did not set up a redirect for the page you were looking for - in that case please use the search box on the top left.

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Chairbot
Mon, 04/01/2010 - 10:54

I'm a member of the Aurorans group ( meetup.com page, ning site). Danny Staple and myself were tasked with putting together a robot that would be simple enough to assemble by interested newbies to robotics (although I hardly qualify as an expert myself). Danny & I agreed on some basic hardware and set to work. Danny's version, the Eee bot, is documented here. This page documents my version of the robot, Chairbot.

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Hexapod
Mon, 04/01/2010 - 10:51
This page describes my attempts to build and program a hexapod (6-legged) robot. For more information, see the updates below.
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Projects
Mon, 04/01/2010 - 08:37

Active Projects

Old Projects

One of my favourite projects of recent years was the work I did together with Lawrence Ball on the Lifehouse Method web site for Pete Townshend

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About Dave
Tue, 29/12/2009 - 14:58

Dave Snowdon was formerly a research scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, France where he created innovative systems for information sharing and worked with peer to peer and context-driven mobile systems. After Xerox, he co-founded Snowtiger Design, a small web/software consultancy, where he put a decade worth of personal experience in professional software development to work for his clients. While at Snowtiger he wrote the software and web user interface for Pete Townshend’s Lifehouse Method - a system to generate unique pieces of music for each individual user.

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Review: District 9
Sun, 27/09/2009 - 00:55

I hadn’t heard anything about District 9 apart from it involved aliens on Earth before watching it but I’m pleased that I succumbed to the impulse to watch the film.

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Today's tip-of-the-day, live from the "No sh*t sherlock" department
Tue, 22/09/2009 - 00:04

I like VMware. I run Linux on my home machine and VMware makes it pretty painless to run a Windows XP VM (not to mention other flavours of Windows and Linux) so I can test sites on different browsers and run MS Word when Open Office is not sufficient.

Each time I start VMware workstation a tip-of-the-day dialog appears. I rarely pay it a lot of attention but haven’t turned it of because I figure that one day it might tell me something useful. However, that day is not today.

Take a look at this:

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