Author: Jason Carvalho

  • Update on the MX5

    Just a quick update on the MX5. The GSXR 600 throttles have been assembled and attached and are now on their way to running pretty nicely. The physical side of the install was pretty simple, mostly a case of bolting stuff up. The only real issue I faced was the routing and length of the […]

  • Individual throttle bodies for the MX5

    Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been taking lots of the MX5’s engine compartment to bits in order to fit a set of individual throttle bodies from a Suzuki GSXR 600. Over the winter, while the car was in the garage, I’ve been collecting parts here and there for the conversion whenever I see […]

  • UK snow map, according to Twitter

    Here’s the snow map mentioned in my last post. The map shows geotagged, snow-related tweets collected over the weekend of 11th-14th January, normalised by the number of tweets per county taken in a separate random sample. As usual, you can click, zoom and pan around the map in the usual way

  • Twitter hotspots

    As part of the background learning and research I’ve been doing for work, I’ve been looking into various forms of spatially referenced data and ways of presenting it over the web. In particular, I’ve been developing a tool in Java that will collect geotagged tweets from Twitter over a period of time, filtered by things […]

  • London to Cambridge bike ride. Twice.

    Did a big old bike ride last week. Cambridge to London via some nice sweeping country lanes and then back to Cambridge again along the official London to Cambridge route. Apart from a few short rides for an hour or two here and there, it was the first ‘proper’ ride I’ve done on a road […]

  • Interfacing Arduino with rFactor

    So, I’ve been fiddling around with an Arduino board for the last week or two. It’s a small microcontroller board that you can dump your own code onto and it’ll run it stand-alone as long as it has a 5V power source. It has about 20 digital and analog input/output pins, so the possibilities of […]