Will Jessop's Writings

2016/April

• The security of a system is as strong as it's weakest component

  The weakest point of any security system effectively dictates how strong the whole system is, as demonstrated by a padlock with a flaw.

2015/September

• Random graph

  For fun I made a random graph

• How to find if two nodes are connected in an RGL graph

  I’m experimenting with graphs and I needed to find out if two nodes in an rgl graph were connected

2014/July

• I got my pan tilt servos working

  Getting the servos working for my camera gimbal

2014/June

• Testing Github commit hook one liners

  A couple of ruby one-liners for dumping out the content of a github commit hook payload

2014/April

• AWS IAM Policy for allowing s3cmd to sync to an S3 bucket

  I needed s3cmd to sync some local files to a remove S3 bucket and had to work out the IAM permissions to allow this.

2013/December

• Ping-Pong Press!

  My robot featyres on the Raspberry Pi foundation blog and Polulu blogs.

• Robot at RubyConf

  I took my robot to Rubyconf, it was popular.

2013/November

• Prototype lifter arm

  I test the prototype robot ping-pong ball lifter arm and design a new motor driver circuit.

• First robot remote driving test

  I control my robot remotely for the first time.