Making an Infrared Remote Interface for the Pioneer PD-Z83M
I made a little black box over the Bank Holiday break. I’ve had a Pioneer PD-Z83M multi-changer CD player since I was a kid, and it was how I listened to a lot of the music of my formative years. I remember listening to Fields of the Nephilim’s sprawling masterpiece Elizium on it at university, […]
Favourite Photo of the Month 2022
Well, it looks like I’ve been posting my annual favourite photos post every year since 2012 now. That’s a surprising amount of consistency for me. My photography has been very much on the back-burner this year. Well, that would imply there’s been a front-burner, which would be a lie. But I did at least manage to […]
Digitising An Exhibition
Since bumping into it during my little One Mile Matt project, I’ve been fascinated by the Bristol International Exhibition of 1914. This was a grand but short-lived ((tip: try not to create a giant exhibition in the middle of a city in the run-up to a world war without getting the city authorities on your […]
White Funnel Fleet Sailings 1965
I started getting more interested in (very) local history when I started my One Mile Matt project. One of the things that fascinated me was the history of P & A Campbell’s White Funnel Fleet, which used to sail from very near me in Hotwells. I’ve always loved taking pictures of the vestiges of this […]
New Year’s Praxis
I don’t find that new year’s resolutions work for me. Over the last decade I’ve developed a slightly different habit. Over the first few weeks after Christmas I try to do a few things that I want to encourage myself to do more of in the coming year. It’s as simple as that. If I […]