MikeSharp01

Welcome oh great one(s) from South of London! (We are East of London - in Kent, just so you know its not Essex) Looks like a great little project.

Yes just tell them what you are trying to do and they will give you their options. Did your SE not specify a brand / systen ours has given us the manufacturer but also 'or equivalent' is in there. So I could just ask my local BM for the equivalent and they should, should, do the work for you.

Yes, very funny and very sad he has gone, great loss to science and UK scientific power. One thing though, his estate will be able to use his voice to say anything they like unless he made specific arrangements (I expect he did) for it to be deleted with him.

Sceptical lot you are... in 1986 I got a thing called a mobile phone, people said to me that it will never catch on - how right they were.

As with many great combinations there is a trade off here in that the the TENG on top of the PV cells does reduce, allbeit quite small, the amount of light (energy) arriving at the PV surface so the TENG has to make that up before you get into payback mode and at 33nA @ 2.14V its a long way off yet. However the potential (pardon the pun) looks exciting especially given the amount of rain we have had recently.

You call that an avatar, given the derivation of avatar (Sanskrit: अवतार, IAST: avatāra) a concept in Hinduism that means "descent", refers to the material appearance or incarnation of a deity. on earth. I think there is perhaps one clause there that your avatar runs close to not being!

Plus they have the advantage of being able to walk safely on the downstairs ceiling plasterboard.

Not sure of the internal structure of the EPS, I did read it when you chatted with Terry but can't recall it clearly. If it is creating a file you might use > : to pipe it over.

What bash command will you use? Can you not get the ESP to expose its registers (memory) to interrogation by the RPi which can then write the net disk with the time stamp. Maybe you could pipe it, is that something the EPS supports. You could encode each EPS so even if the DHCP resets their IP address you still know which sensor it is.

Looks like a suitably rich picture of the system you are trying to describe, is it important to timestamp every reading or every round robin poll. (How often will you poll the sensors?)

Not sure I can agree with this. Two bits of evidence in support of my disagreement. Firstly just up the A2 from here they are working on the Ebsfleet Garden City and they have room, and permission, for 15,000 homes but they are being built at a trickle pace, there must be an underlying reason for this pace. The land is there and the demand is there, 17 minutes from central London on the fast train. The builders have a number of excuses but I suspect the rate is controlled by economics not housing need. Secondly, on the other side of the equation, if the houses were prefabricated on a large enough scale they could be assembled on site in no time at all, weeks instead of the the year which looks like the average lead time of more traditional construction, and thus bring the build rate up to something like what we need. Sadly we all know the old maxim that 'investment challenges change' so if you are invested in one method of construction switching to another does not appear to be in your interests until, as happened to stone age man (& woman) they get overrun by the bronze wielding hoards. Talk to my children's generation they get it, or rather they don't get the housing opportunities we had. Although owning your own property makes you 'heavy' it also gives you some security of tenure that is not available elsewhere.

I also have an interest in this and have tried to stimulate thinking on it here, to little avail at the moment, because it is a no brainer when it comes to solving the housing crisis, can't quite understand why it has not been forced through / enabled / incentivised by HMG - must be a vested interest I have not spotted - oh the house builders I suppose!

The man from the north speaks correctly - but you might ask your boy how he created an EXFAT format on what must be a recent USB key. MS used EXFAT from about 10 years back and I think they keep some of the 'secrets' to themselves. Other formats are faster these days anyway.

how long is your crash pad to work journey? That might give a pointer to what you need as in something that turns on the heating as you head home but if too close that won't work if you get my drift.

Great idea I will divert the shower run off through our daughters bedroom - that is something of a s heap, she does not live here anymore but she us coming over to see her mum later maybe I can encourage her to tidy it up.

Not quite true. Our problem is that we would have to teach many (100s) of languages to speak to them in theirs while they only have to learn one. I think we have discussed this before but max bangs per buck would be chinese and urdu but we teach french, German and Spanish none of which alone help you speak to the others. So while we are the custodians of the global 'lingua franca' ( oh the irony) there is no incentive for us to learn languages en mass.

Hmmm not sure that is a PC view and besides you need quite some infrastructure around you, acceptable toilet facilities of your local standard probably being among them, to get the qualifications necessary to gain entry to your son's uni no matter where in the world you come from.

No not necessarily but a bathroom would be good.

Chilling!

If you felt it was going to pay for itself wouldn't the effort be worth it in the end? Or is the complexity just not worth it?

AS JSH SAYS @jack has a system and it has been discussed here a year + ago.

Why is that a snag - do the locals like paddling

PS what I meant to say was that the 8gb does give you more time between slugs!

I have 8gb in my windows 7 machine and Firefox still gets it to 90% sometimes. I just use task manager to kill it and restore session brings it back to a reasonable 38%. Just why Firefox is so bad I have no idea but Chrome is not far behind sometimes. Autocad can be a slug as well though.

This is the best I have found out there, when I come to replace mine in a year or so this is what I will get my hands on: https://www.jsp.co.uk/link/en/head-protection/evo-8-en14052-safety-helmets/evo-8-linesman-safety-helmet/evo-8-safety-helmet-linesman-orange/ahs240-000-800/p/?parm=CAT1JSP&prdcod=AHS240-000-800 I wear my hard hat all the time on site, after all it s what it says on the sign on the fence! Without it I feel naked now when working on site and I have had a couple of knocks (nothing dropping) that I would have known all about were it not for my hard hat. Also because I have one, and I keep a spare or two for the purpose, visitors all expect to wear one - which it says on the sign. I am not sure what my site insurance says but I suspect that not wearing the appropriate PPE might give them a let out!