<![CDATA[n I Finally Got a Lighting Desk Connected! n Now I have my laptop back full time, Abi got her new one yesterday, I thought I’d have a shot at getting my offline lighting desk connected to WYSIWYG and see what I could come up with. n As always I chose to connect the Chamsys…

<![CDATA[n Guess who’s Made a New Kit List?  n So a few weeks back Blackmagic Design released a couple of interesting products. One of those is now firmly attached to the top of my AV Wishlist. It’s the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO. This little beauty not only gives you the ability to record each of…

<![CDATA[n The History  n When I was back in University I produced a student-led webcast once a week. It wasn’t the most watch webcast in the world with average viewing figures in the tens rather than the thousands but whilst doing it I learnt a lot about setting up, producing and even hosting live programming….

<![CDATA[n Home Assistant Rocks!!!… Just not on my phone  n You may have noticed that I’ve not posted anything over the last couple of week. It’s been a bit busy what with work and the surprising amount of DIY that Abi has found for me to do now that I’m back at work. 😂 n…

<![CDATA[n Where are my Royalties @BlackMagic_News ?  n A Few months ago I wrote a post asking Blackmagic design to add a couple of features to the ATEM Mini Pro on the Blackmagic forums and it seems they have listened. Unfortunately, I’ve not received any royalties for my idea, and I’m not expecting ant any time soon…

<![CDATA[n Was The Upgrade Worth It?  n I recently started my new job at Vodafone and one of the first things I was told was that I could talk about work. As you can imagine this makes writing about my daily life quite difficult as I spend 5 days a week with the wonderful team…

<![CDATA[n Finally, A Way To Do Face Tracking With FaceID  n For a while now I’ve been looking into different ways to do motion capture on the cheap. You won’t believe how ridiculously expensive it is to create even an at-home setup that captures your body and face movements for animation software. That was until…

<![CDATA[n This May Change How My Posts Look  n So I’ve done something either really cool or really stupid… or possibly both. I’ve installed a plugin that gives me access to the beta updates for WordPress. I know, I know, I shouldn’t try out beta software in a production environment but for me, this blog…

<![CDATA[n Imagine a smart home with no hubs that just connects. n I had another idea the other day. Imagine if when you bought your smart home products you wouldn’t have to worry about connecting them to your network. Imagine that as soon as your screwed in your light bulb or plugged in you smart…

<![CDATA[n Everything still works on macOS 11 & iOS 14 n A couple of weeks back apple release their beta versions of macOS & iOS to members of the developer program and me, being me, upgraded all of my devices to check out the new operating system and see what they could do. One thing…