There are two things you may spot on my Schematic Diagram;

1. My cunning use of Ethernet over CAT 5 for Data.
2. I forgot to draw the lights on – ah well.

The cunning Plan is to use one Arduino Mega (2560), with an Ethernet Shield for the control; and interface (serve a webpage with all all the controls on it). and use an Ethernet Camera for Vision Feedback.

I used .:oomlout:. as my supplier for the Arduino Mega and Ethernet Shield, after they were recomended by Nat Poate, however oomlout don’t stock, and have no plans currently to stock the Teensy.

If I need more than one Microcontroller in my ROV I can interface them together using I²C (“i-squared cee” or “two-wire interface”), However the Arduino Mega has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog inputs, and I cant see myself running out even with the Ethernet Shield connected.

Hopefuly this will be waiting for me when I get home, so I can have a play

A while ago Loupie and I went to Trewsbury Mead to look for the source of the Thames;

Thames Head

There’s a little cup in the Cotswold Hills
Which a spring in a meadow bubbles and fills
Spanned by a heron’s wing, crossed by a stride
Calm and untroubled by dreams of pride
Guiltless of fame and ambition’s aims
Thats the source of the lordly Thames
– Bret Harte

This field is official source of the River Thames,

The Inscription on the stone reads

The Conservators of the River Thames 1857-1974
This Stone was Placed here to Mark the source of the River Thames

(From http://www.jet.efda.org/jet/news/2011/06/the-shutdown-in-time-lapse/)

During the Shutdown we managed to get a walk round the JET Torus Hall; and I managed to get a few pics on my iPhone; unfortunately now the shutdown is over I wont be able to get back in for a while.

And some pics from a Clean room,

While I was working with Scott Wilson Railways, on my Year in Industry I had the pleasure of walking the East London Line Junction, while it was being transferred from London Underground to London Overground.

The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, United Kingdom, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high and is 1,300 feet (396 m) long, running at a depth of 75 feet (23 m) below the river’s surface (measured at high tide). It was the first tunnel known successfully to have been constructed underneath a navigable river,[1] and was built between 1825 and 1843 using Thomas Cochrane and Marc Isambard Brunel’s newly invented tunnelling shield technology, by him and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The tunnel was originally designed for, but never used by, horse-drawn carriages and now forms part of the London Overground railway network.

One of the Thames tunnel tunnels,

Thames Tunnel

looking south onto Whitechapple Junction

Switch and Crossing between Whitechaple and Whitechaple Junction

I will try and Work out where I took these photos; and when I do I will update and Caption them.

Just Round the corner from Battlebridge Basin is the London Canal Museum where Loupie found this book:

Geoffrey Lewis & Tom McManus’s “L-Plate Boating”; if we do get aboard we may have to get a copy.

A while ago I bought my self a Sprocket Rocket camera, the Sprocket Rocket is a 35 mm film camera that packages an ultra wide angle lens, that allows you to capture the image on the whole width of the film (Including on the Sprockets).

Three things really stand out about the Lomography Sprocket Rocket, one is that it allows you to shoot Panoramic Shots, super wide angle photos, using its 30 mm 130 degree lens, a re-wind knob that allows multiple exposures, giving you even more creative control, and thirdly exposure of the sprockets.

I have currently got my third role of film in it; hopefully this weekend I will be able to get some negatives developed, and scanned so I can see how they come out.

The most recent book I have acquired of interest is a 1967 print of G.F.C Rogers and Y.R. Mathews’ “Engineering Thermo-Dynamics – SI Units”, other books acquired include Maxwell Crooks and Frederick Dawson’s “The Dictionary of Typewriting”, and some older hardback books on Photography.

The general rule of thumbs are:

• Ask nicely if you can swap the books you find for ones you have
• Bring in a book of your own to replace with the one you acquire

So for the Engineering Thermo-dynamics book, I shall be taking in a copy of “Plasma Diagnostic Techniques” that I found at work.

So with a blank canvas to start from, and no equipment to tie me to a manufacturer; I am wondering if I should look at Canon equipment as well as Nikon.

In the mean time a good friend of mine has lent me a Sony α 200 to have a go with; until I can afford to replace my equipment.

UKgoth.info is now back online; well sort of; needs a fair amount of poking to get it up to date; Tony of the UK Waterways Ranking Site has agreed to let me use the code for a Ranking Site. I did speak to Geekery.in about using their code in the project; but they wanted to host it for me. Well; it just means that Loupie and I will have to ask bma nicely to make us something.

I have chosen to Start my New Years Challenges Tomorrow; The First one is the “Day Zero Project”, which is otherwise known as the “101 things in 1001 Days” and the one that makes more sense just for a year is the “100+ Reading Challenge” however given how well I get on with reading; this may be one painful challenge.

Also on the cards is the resurrection of some of my other sites; these should acquire a post each as they come back online.

The Bag Contained:

• Nikon D70 18-70mm Lens
• Sigma 70-300mm Lens
• A Little GE Compact Camera
• 2x Jesops Speed-lights
• a collection of Compact Flash Cards
• 3 Nikon Batteries + Charger
• A USB multi format Card Reader
• Loupie’s Bridge Camera

This matter has been reported to the police; so hopefully they wont be entirely useless should any of this show up. well we can all but live in hope.

I hope you will join us on this journey.

Skippy.

Gemma doesn’t seem to have picked up on this one yet, but a while ago Ben and I were talking in MSN, or Yahoo, and he showed me this link to a woman (she is a Graphic Designer) in the USís blog, and at the same time this link to Gem’s site, and asked me what was the same (the hint is to the right ->) it seems Ferris, doesn’t understand that linking to the copyright owners site is a good idea on the web.

Which all in all leads me onto my point about copyright infringement:

As stated in the previous blog post Ruth was involved with the Woodhouse players Little Mermaid and I took some photos for; On the Wood hose players page the following is stated “Images by and © Skippy ñ http://PhilipMcGaw.com”; why is it that the Redbridge Guardian have failed even to state that the image was provided by the wood house players for inclusion in the article, there is space for the copyright, or reference directly below the image. I would not have minded having something like “image provided by Woodhouse players” as I gave the images to the WHP, but as it is the source of the image is unclear.

Which brings us back to Gods Copyright; in the conversation between Ben and me, he asked if because Ferris had stated

“I am going to cherish a sunset that God has made previously and that someone else thought was so beautiful that it had to be captured by a photograph”

Is this why she did not feel the need to reference Gemma for taking the photo?

Updated title with regard to Bens post on Creationist Copyright.

In this article all copyright holders, and sources have been attributed, and items for which I don’t hold copyright have been used for Citation, I believe this is fair use, please tell me if you disagree.