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Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation II

Posted on 2012-12-17 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After meeting up with Peter at Martin’s micro_blackdeath ATmega noise workshop at NK on Saturday, we were able to talk a bit more about what I’m calling the Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation of the activity in our database. The python … Continue reading →

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What GPS / GPX visualisation software to use in Linux

Posted on 2011-07-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

OK, so you’ve chosen a GPS, based on the last post and you’ve taken a walk with it and are itching to look at what you’ve done. There are so many sites now offering advice, mostly for Windoze of course … Continue reading →

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Python script that sends live GPS values over OSC

Posted on 2011-04-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

After meeting André Wakko at the fantastically bonkers workshop Insecure Territories with Bengt Sjolén, Martin Howse and Brendan Howell, I noticed that he was sonorizing wi-fi traffic and I cheekily introduced him to my GPS project for making some kind … Continue reading →

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Compile New GPSBabel from source

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A new version of GPSBabel – version 1.4.2 came out but it’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories and there are no binaries on the GPSBabel site. I’m here to tell you that installing from the source worked pretty painlessly … Continue reading →

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Remove Line Breaks in OpenOffice Writer

Posted on 2011-02-14 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Something I find myself doing quite a lot these days is starting to write a text in Emacs Org-Mode which I then expect ‘normal’ people to contribute to or view. (By ‘normal’ I mean the perfectly nice but less enlightened … Continue reading →

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