Adventures of a Technomancer

Making the open Wi-Fi map

Like most of my projects this one started with a question: how much of my city was covered by open Wi-Fi signals and how strong those signals are. What I wanted to create was something close to a phone signal

Thunderbolt and lightning

Over 80,000 [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26459-australian-skies-lit-up-by-80000-lightning-strikes.html] lightning strikes were recorded in South Australia during the biggest thunderstorm this year. While the storm raged, creating fires and causing power outages I stood out in the wind and rain to capture my new favourite photo.

Radio station comparison

The latest addition to the radio statics suite is colour coordinated comparisons [http://lab.jcode.me/radioStatistics/compare/]. Select any two tracked radio stations and within seconds glorious radio station statistics will appear.

Radio station reactions

Analysis into FM radio repetition

Originally, this project started out with me, stuck in the car listening to the same music to and from work every day. I got sick of it and wanted to find out just how much music was being over played so

Royal Adelaide Hospital time lapse

For 858 days (2 years and 4 months) I've been following the construction of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital via webcam. Over that period I've downloaded 1 image every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day for a total of 80,724 images. On the

Hexacopter fails

During my time testing the hexacopter from Flexbot [http://jcode.me/flexbot-multicopter/] I failed to keep control of the copter due to strong winds, gravitational fluxes, signal failures and software glitches. My 2 camera people were injured severely, losing limbs and an eye, but that doesn't matter

Flexbot multicopter

Today I received my Hex Combo Set from the Hex copter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1387330585/hex-a-copter-that-anyone-can-fly] Kickstarter project. Upon opening the package I was greeted by 2 very well presented multi-copters, and in this post I'll be opening and constructing the hexacopter, a multicopter with 6 motors. Assembly The

Ghost theme: Ratatoskr

Introducing Ratatoskr, a simple news theme for Ghost. Ratatoskr focuses on text heavy content, delivering it with clean and simple fonts. Ratatoskr is based on the light weight Casper [https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper] theme created by the Ghost team, allowing for a ridiculously light theme. Its load

Ghost theme: Nyx

Two days ago I tried my hand at a more custom Ghost theme and I created Nyx, named after the Greek goddess of the night. Nyx uses HTML5 Boilerplate for its core, snugly wrapped in Bootstrap and Masonry layers with just a

YouTube+ comments

The recent change in the YouTube comment system, more specifically, the merge with Google+ has created a tremendous amount of backlash. Top YouTubers such as Yogscasts [http://www.youtube.com/user/BlueXephos], Nerd³ [http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNerdCubed], Totalbiscuit [http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut] and Pewdiepie [http://www.youtube.com/user/Pewdiepie] have disabled comments all together on their new videos, one citing

Ingress Badges - Source

In total I created 8 badges and all have given to various resistance members. I won't be making any more badges as I have moved on from Ingress related activities, however if you wish to create your own I've put the