<![CDATA[n It’s time to get out my non-existent Credit Card… Again!  n As I mentioned in my last post, Blackmagic recently released a bunch of new products, I also mentioned that I’d be updating my kit list to include these new products… and here it is. This post took me a bit longer than usual as…

<![CDATA[n A lot was announced in a short amount of time  n Last Thursday Blackmagic Design had a live stream where they released some new products for both HD and 4K Live production workflows. As has become the norm, as I watch the live stream I was constantly thinking “I Wants all of these!”. So…

<![CDATA[n You can have a Smart Home with Privacy  n I mentioned in a previous post that I’d moved my Home Assistant installation over to a Raspberry Pi from my ageing Mac mini. I thought that I’d go into a little bit of detail about setting up and what we currently have in our smart home and…

<![CDATA[n Is an ARM Processor in the running for my Workstation?  n If you have read my previous post you’ll know that I have recently moved my webserver over to the ARM-based Amprer hardware over on Oracle Cloud. That got me thinking what with apple transitioning over to their own ARM-based Apple Silicone is there an option…

<![CDATA[n And It’s All Thanks To Portainer And Servarr  n Not that long ago I moved my Home Assistant server from my old Mac mini to my new Raspberry Pi. The main reason for this is that the spinning rust I call a hard drive has started to become unreliable, there’s still a bit of…

<![CDATA[n Now we can stream!!  n n In my last post, I gave you my idea for a multi-purpose camera rig. This time I’ll be fleshing that rig out to give us a Live streaming setup for Productions and Live events. The camera rig will be the same except this time we’ll have 4 of them…

<![CDATA[n Now we can stream!!  n n In my last post, I gave you my idea for a multi-purpose camera rig. This time I’ll be fleshing that rig out to give us a Live streaming setup for Productions and Live events. The camera rig will be the same except this time we’ll have 4 of…

<![CDATA[n Future-proofing your camera rig!  n n As I mentioned in my previous post I have once again pretended I have an actual budget to come up with a Multi-Purpose Camera Rig. This time though rather than designing it to be part of something else, I wanted to design it so that it could be…

<![CDATA[n It’s so easy the pirates are already doing it  n Since the second year of my degree, a thought has been bugging me. Why are there no internet/cloud-based broadcasters? We have Over-The-Top stuff light the Red Button or On-demand programming, but the closest we get to prosper live internet broadcasting is live streams on…

<![CDATA[n So….. Blog 2.0 it is then  n Well it look like I’ve just lost over 2 years of blog posts… and this time it wasn’t even my fault (Stupid hosting providers) n At least I have the opportunity to go through some of my ideas and tidy them up. Might take me a little…