Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam. The video shows New York between 15:30 and 08:30 (local time) last night as Sandy hit.
I used a simple script to download one image per minute – combining a cron-job with a few lines of PHP, and used these to create a 60fps 30fps time-lapse video of the approximately 1050 images gathered so far.
Let me start off by saying that I in general haven't been all that interested in making everything in my house "smart". There are several reasons for this, where the main ones boil down to reliability and that I don't use voice commands at all. In short; the convenience has…
I recently bought a hammock, and thought that I'd try going hammock camping. So I packed my backpack and headed into the woods. Here are some of my thoughts after having spent the night outside in below freezing temperatures with a hammock. Setting up Setting up the campsite was just…
Electric power companies, in general, are pretty much the same. Tibber however, is unlike any electricity company I had seen before. They try to utilise the data we get from smart devices, which they also sell, to save electricity, money and the environment, as well as improving comfort. It’s a…
