Welcome |
Here you'll find my thoughts on anything and everything. Longer features can be found in the Articles section. Linked below is my very old site with various obsolete software for PCs, & Psion Series 3/5 |
My Old Site |
About Me |
Welcome to my home page. My interests include the following :- My faith - Christianity. My Family Computing (especially programming and database development - PHPrunner, Xojo, Visual BASIC / VBA, Paradox/OPL, PHP, Javascript, and formerly VB, QB, Psion OPL, and various languages on the Atari ST and even older computers) Anything to do with Science and/or Engineering, Metallurgy Boating Photography Walking, sightseeing (see above). Star Trek (but not to the extent of learning Klingon or anything OTT!). My favourites are in this order : TNG, Voyager, TOS, DS9. Still not sure about Discovery but Picard was pretty good. Films / Cinema. My favourite films are, in no particular order Bladerunner, Star Trek : First Contact, Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, and the first Star Trek reboot. I'm a Semi-Retired Chartered Engineer, and work in the Oil & Gas industry as a Consultant Welding & Materials Engineer. I live in Lowestoft, England. |
WIMS App for Android Developed |
Just waiting for Google to approve my App Review, but if you're interested in testing out the App in the Closed Test track, please contact me. |
Manual for WIMS App for Android |
wims.org.uk Becomes Main Site for all Welding-Related File Downloads |
In future I'm going to separate all my welding utilities out from my hobby-related ones, and post all new ones at wims.org.uk. I've recently added a spreadsheet to conduct ferrite calculations mased on Schaeffler, WRC 1992, and DeLong methodolgy there - a big improvement on the Scaheffler one posted here. |
WIMS |
Boat Bridge Height Sensor |
How to build an ultrasonic distance sensor to measure bridge clearance for a boat that broadcasts the data to a mobile phone or tablet. |
Raspberry Pi Zero W Ultrasonic Distance Server |
Connecting the Digital Yacht Nomad AIS to Raymarine e95 Using the HF2211 WiFi Serial Server |
New article on a versatile cheap serial server. |
Link |
New Video |
New video on using construction lines in QuickCAD |
QuickCAD : Construction Lines |
New Video |
New for version 4.2, 'Set Boundary' defines an area for horizontal and vertical flip transformations and Selection Scope makes it easier to delete, copy, move, or alter the attributes of just one or more tool objects. |
QuickCAD : Boundaries and Selection Scope |