Author Archives: Tris

About Tris

Tris is a software engineer with a PhD in image analysis. He likes real beer, photography, electric guitar based music and Unix operating systems.

PiPurr – The Remote Cat Interaction Server

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Tris

All the best hacks and open-source projects come about by scratching personal itches. In fact when asked by friends and acquaintances “How do I start with coding – what should I write?“, that is my usual answer – “Find something … Continue reading →

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OggCamp 12

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Tris

Here at CantHack, we’ve always been fans of Barcamp type unconferences, and between us we have attended many Barcamps over the years, and have even organised one ourselves. OggCamp is a Barcamp-like event that focuses on free and open culture … Continue reading →

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hgdc-x 0.5.3

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tris

I know it’s been quite a while since the 0.5.3 release of the hgd server, but I finally got around to completing the latest version of hgdc-x, the cross-platform GUI hgd client. It is compatible with any of the 0.5.x … Continue reading →

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A Temperature Sensor with Arduino

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Tris

After getting the Arduino Uno for Christmas last year, I set about doing what every geek does after getting bored of the usual blinky blinky pin 13 stuff, and started thinking about what I could do with it that was … Continue reading →

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hgdc-x. A Cross-Platform, Native hgd Client.

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Tris

At Can’t Hack’s recent Medway Hack day, which took place at the Medway Hackspace, I decided to work on a new desktop /GUI client for the hgd music server. The current crop of hgd clients does not so far include … Continue reading →

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Hexy: Binary to Hex Array Converter.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Tris

Just after the second hack night, Tim was temporarily staying at my house for a while, and one evening just happened to be working on some embedded PIC stuff. He was writing a system to serve an image over a … Continue reading →

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Lazarus Talk at Barcamp Canterbury 1

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Tris

This weekend just gone saw the first Barcamp to occur in my home town of Canterbury. It went incredibly well and was greatly enjoyable. It was my first Barcamp, and I presented one presentation on the open source Lazarus IDE, the slides … Continue reading →

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Getting Faster USB Charging from an In Car Charger

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Tris

The other day I was driving to work with my brand new Google Nexus S Android phone on the dashboard, as usual. A new version of Google Maps had just come out, and coupled with the fact that I had just … Continue reading →

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LCD Now Playing Screen

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Tris

For Hack Night #2, I wanted to create a “Now Playing” LCD display to integrate with the lpHack music server that we worked on at Hack Night #1. The resulting project is another real Can’t Hack team effort as it … Continue reading →

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Webcam Infrared LED Hack

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Tris

At the Can’t Hack, Won’t Hack nights so far, we have had a good number of successful hacks, most of which are documented on this blog. At Hack Night #2 however, we had one not quite so successful hack – … Continue reading →

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