Colin’s brain dump

I am a Glasgow based embedded electronics and software engineer who makes stuff that goes into space. When I'm not earning my keep, I use what I know to play with the world.

Colin Waddell on a bike in Copenhagen

Articles

Title	Published	Categories	Views
Achieving prime-focus on a Sky-Watcher Heritage-150P Telescope Light-plumbing is hard	21st Feb 2025	[astronomy]	[350]
Bindicator: My homage to the BinDayCator This is a rubbish subtitle	15th Nov 2024	[projects]	[1116]
LoRa enabling an IKEA Tärnaby table lamp This lamp now detects shenanigans	5th Nov 2024	[projects]	[979]
TimeSaver3000 USB cable for those finickity dev-kits But have you really tried turning it off and on again?	31st Oct 2024	[embedded]	[791]
Custom TFT Screen for the Ecowitt Weather Station Ditching windows for a TFT Screen and an Arduino	30th Oct 2024	[projects]	[1039]
Building a better website Why I nuked my old website and built this one	27th Oct 2024	[webdev]	[838]
Fridge Flight Tracker I really had to know what planes were flying over my house	28th Nov 2021	[projects]	[4411]
Keychron function keys configuration	26th Jun 2020	[reference]	[2118]
Taps Aff - How it got to Version 3.0 How did I end up with this albatross around my neck?	8th Mar 2019	[projects], [webdev]	[1416]
Fetch Yahoo weather data using OAuth1 authentication in Python 3	6th Mar 2019	[reference]	[1025]