Category: WebDev & Code
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Gandi said thanks 🙂
What a lovely surprise! A T-shirt arrived in the post from the folks at Gandi.net Gandi are the company that provide all my domain names and server hosting for work and play, including the hardware behind this blog. I’ve been using them since 2009 and they’ve always super. If you need domain names or hosting, I…
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Extracting images from PDF (free, using command line)
This is a day when I love computers. I have a multipage PDF and I need to extract the images from it. Option 1: Open the PDF on screen, capture each section, save each file. No thanks, that’ll take far too long and lose quality (which already isn’t too great) Option 2: Open the PDF using…
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Building an automatic infrared remote control for the shop
My second Arduino based project has been to build an infrared remote control that will turn on a TV when the TV is powered up and defaults to standby mode. Here the background. I have a showroom that sells kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms. On the second floor one of the displays has a TV that…