brettoliver.org.uk Guestbook - This is my old Guestbook from pre 2019
Note my Domain name prefix has now changed from http://home.btconnect.com/brettoliver1/ to http://www.brettoliver.org.uk
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Date Signed: December
10, 2018 1:39 PM Name: Luciano Baldi Location: Italia Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. LCD DCF77 Master Clock Comments: Dear Brett, I am making DCF77 Master Clock, I have a little problem, connect the Arduino circuit to the circuit that plays the sounds. If you can kindly help me I would be grateful. Thank you for your kind reply and wishing you happy holidays, cordially Luciano Baldi. P.S The sound circuit is identical to that of your Master Clock.
Date Signed: December 11, 2018 Hi Brett, thanks for the kind answer, even if the project is old I like it a lot, being a retired telephone technician I have a good pastime. I also built the Word Clok who speaks Italian, I await for the weekend the letters that the typographer has to give me. The sound board is the same one that is in your project, but I do not understand how to connect it, If you can kindly help me I would be grateful to you. Kind regards Luciano Baldi
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Date Signed: December
03, 2018 1:35 PM Name: Ezio Gazzola Location: Milano (Italy) Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. Arduino Pet Food Dispenser Comments: Hi, I really liked the design of the cat croquettes dispenser. I have to try to build one myself too. Greetings Ezio
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Date Signed: November
18, 2018 5:56 PM Name: JEROME Location: FRANCE Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. DCF77 Analyser Clock Comments: Hello. I will build the DCF77 Analyser Clock and I have questions: 1) The program for the Atmega (Normal signal & superFilter signal) is the same for the 2 atemega328? 2) When i compile the program with the software arduino 1.8.6, I have a lot of errors that i can't quote because I'm limited to 3000 characters. Can you help me please? Regards. Jérôme
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Date Signed: November
17, 2018 9:21 AM Sincerely Luciano Baldi
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Date Signed: November 03, 2018 10:22
AM Name: Richard Williams Location: Esher Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Pragotron Comments: I have bought a Pragotron clock which is lovely, but need to make it work. Do you sell the parts to make it work with batteries? I can send you pics etc. of the clock itself;f and the movement. Kindest Richard Williams
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Date Signed: October
18, 2018 9:35 AM Name: Jason Roberts Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc http://www.brettoliver.org.uk/Cat_Feeder/Pet_Feeder.htm
TIA Cheers JR
Hi JR the feed flaps are all part of the cereal dispenser. This is the type used in my project available on Ebay. See the Construction Section on my web site.
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Date Signed: August
08, 2018 9:14 PM Name: John Heald Location: Earby,Lancs Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Bird Box Comments: Hi Brett, I'm very impressed with your bird box recording set-up. I can understand most of the physical work, but what is needed for he electronic components that interface with the computer, etc. Any help, or pointing ne in the right direction would be much appreciated. John
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Date Signed: September
11, 2017 10:40 PM Name: Antonio Vernucci Location: Rome Italy
I take this occasion - if I may - to put you a simple question concerning DCF-77-locked circuits. For an amateur radio application I need a circuit that just generates a pulse at the beginning of every minute, nothing else. Searching the web I can find dozen of circuits which do that job but all of them are overwhelmingly complex whilst I need something simple and not requiring new developments, e.g.; a Conrad DCF-77 receiver plus a small board with a PIC or an Arduino processor plus free software. Best for me would be to purchase an all-inclusive off-the-shelf product at an affordable price. I would be grateful to you if you would kindly suggest me the most convenient way to proceed. Thanks a lot in advance and again congratulations for your outstanding developments. Tony
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Date Signed: August
18, 2017 11:31 AM
I'm sure they are an inspiration to a lot of people. I've had a synchronome GPO type 36 hipp mechanism clock for over 20 years. The 30 second Gents slave clock has always been too noisy for home use. Having found your site I modified a quartz clock mechanism and built your 4093 circuit for 2 second pulses to make sure I could get that working before contacting you. My problem is I haven't the electronics knowledge to go further. The clock has 2 contacts at the top of the pendulum wired in parallel to give a 1 second output. These contacts could be used to ground the drive input possible through a relay to give more reliability or feed a voltage out. I would be grateful for any help or advice you could give me. A circuit to use these 1 second contacts to feed the quartz clock movement would really be appreciated . Regard and best wishes, Richard
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Date Signed: June
12, 2017 3:30 PM Name: Michael Hallman Location: Montgomery, Alabama USA
We currently are the only state to have Pressurized Ionization Chamber stations (PICS) that operate around our 2 nuclear plants. These are basically very similar on a smaller scale. However, I'm looking for what the price tag is for this project. If you could e-mail me the details of such, I would be very grateful. Thanks for sharing this! (originally found on instructables.com)
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Date Signed: April
24, 2017 1:08 PM
Would like to build devise to chime on the hour to match the time eg 3 chimes for 3 o clock hope you can help regards from OZ ron
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Date Signed: April
18, 2017 2:14 PM
I would be very interested in seeing it again if you can make it accessible please. I am totally confused about some of the family line and I seem to remember that it was all set out very clearly on your pages. You kindly sent me a DVD of photos of our family and there was a soldier on there (killed in WWI) who is completely unknown to me. I couldn't find him in the census or in the military rolls for WWI. I am going to the National Memorial Arboretum next week and I would like to see if I can find him somewhere on those(many)memorials. It would be more interesting if I knew our connection. I hope you can help with this. Please say hello to your mum or me, I haven't seen her since Auntie Dot's funeral - a long time ago. Best wishes to all your family. Jenny
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Date Signed: March 17, 2017 7:12 PM Name: John Nursall Location: Calgary Canada
Does anyone know who produced this clip, so that I can be in touch with them for permission?? Cheers, John Nursall
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Name: Christopher Hicks Location: Not Entered Which of my web site's is your comment referring to: WW1 Family History
Comments: Really nice web site. I have been down through the records for my great uncle, Roy Vincent Murphy 1033142, of the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Transcribed in the War Diary of the 38th, and 12th Brigade sister Battalion the 73rd.
A wealth of knowledge regarding Battalion movements and the routine of both in the line and out.
Keep up the good work.
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Date Signed: February 01, 2017 3:23 PM
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Date Signed: December
07, 2016 10:36 AM Name: Rene Schwolow Location: Germany Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Clocks Comments: Hi, I will be working as a freelance product- designer, I have studied at the Bauhaus- university Weimar, fascinated about your clock an time project, and i am looking for someone with that kind of passion about working with programming and building own time devices since years. The reason for my search is a own project and product collection from 2011 I want to realise in 2017. In that case i am searching for someone with your knowledge and passion doing some stuff together. For more information I hope we can get in contact as soon as possible. Best regards René
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Date Signed: November
02, 2016 8:30 PM Name: Philip Cockell Location: Suffolk Homepage: http://---- Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. Master Clock Comments: Hi, I was fascinated by the master clocks that you've crafted. I was just wondering whether its possible to hack into a standard radio controlled alarm clock and use it to create 30 second pulses/minute pulses, as with your clock?
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Date Signed: October 25, 2016 11:23 PM Name: Mike Cook Location: near Paris, France Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. Master/Slave Clocks
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Date Signed: March
28, 2016 7:35 AM Name: Anthony Clarke Location: Sydney, Oz
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Date Signed: February
29, 2016 11:14 PM Name: Dave Location: UK Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Arduino Push Alerts Comments: Hi, I've just been reading through your Arduino Push Alerts system article. I was just wondering which webcam you used and how you configured it as a public IP in addition to how you integrated it with PushBullet. As far as I can see I cannot find an option to send a webcam image with PushBullet but it is referenced on several sites. Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Dave |
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Date Signed: February 20, 2016 9:54 AMName: Phil_S Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Master clock Comments: Hello I just chanced upon your website while looking for a method to drive an LCD display on a second Arduino while the other Arduino collects and processes the data from sensors around the house (run out of pins) What an impressive piece of work - the website alone is miles better than many commercial ones, let alone the content. I have been looking for an accurate timekeeper for a while now. I'm fed up with all the expensive programmers, especially on the heating systems (room thermostats, boiler programmer etc.) that as well as being expensively unreliable (on the third room thermostat (2 x Honeywell, 1x Drayton) at £60-70 a time, also keep lousy time, Honeywell being the worst. The plan was to replace them by Arduino based kit and send out a synchronising time signal from a master, say, once a day at midnight. I use an MSF digital clock which I hacked into the alarm function. The alarm puts out a pattern of bleeps at 00:00 which an Arduino recognises as legitimate, and then by 433-MHz wireless, puts out a pulse picked up by the secondaries. The secondaries use RTC's and the plan is to correct just the minutes or seconds with the master pulse. I tried most of the RTC chips, but all are reasonable but far from accurate over a long period. The Arduino at the MSF will only update if the MSF clock is giving a sensible time and not out of action due to signal loss (I'm further south than you) Going back to your clocks. I have a fair idea of just how much effort has gone in - it's one thing to have a tangle of wires on the prototype bench, but the hard bit is to turn it into a finished project. I find that the Arduino community falls into two camps - there are those who are very clever but refuse to give any appreciable help, even stooping to the filthy lucre game, and there are those who are clever and generous enough to share their talents. Yours are the generous variety. Very good luck with future projects and your website now has the honour of going into my "knowledge base" collection of worthwhile information Phil_S
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Date Signed: February
03, 2016 2:11 PM Name: Emma Garston Location: Lancashire Homepage: http://www.lancswt.org.uk Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Nest Box Cams Comments: Hello I have been watching your nest box footage of the bluetits nesting. This is fantastic footage and I wondered would it be possible to either purchase or hire it for use in educational sessions within our charity. Within nest box week we are hoping to encourage people to build and put up their own nest boxes but I am keen to demonstrate what birds need when they chose a box to nest in and how we can help and protect them to do this. Any footage would be appreciate, if this is a possibility of course. Many thanks Emma
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Date Signed: January
27, 2016 10:00 AM Name: Eric Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc DCF77 Master Clock Comments: Brett, Thank you very much for being so kind to share your knowledge. I am very jealous of the bracket master clock. This is really awsome! Tried hard to find one but its hard to get one. Regards, Eric
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Date Signed: January
26, 2016 11:11 AM Name: Chris Windridge Location: Caterham Homepage: http:// Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc weather
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Date Signed: November 18, 2015 11:51 AM Name: marco Location: Comments: Hi im really impressed by your skills can you help me to recovery my solari udione dator 6 seconday clock? it is an italian secondary 24v flip clock that usaes a step by step motor but i don't have its master can you help me with some arduino project? i'm only able to solder and load preprogrammed code on arduino
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Date Signed: October 25, 2015 1:29 PM
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Date Signed: July
25, 2015 5:12 PM Name: Dr Melvyn Draper Location: UK
Your doorbell mod was just what I was looking for - I always seem to be in my workshop some distance from the house, when the delivery man arrives. I had all the components available in my stock other than the 556 IC - I used two 555 instead. Bought a small box to fit on the side of the DECT base-station to match and coupled with a 3.5mm jack plug/socket. It works perfectly - all DECT phones produce the paging signal and, with plenty of range, I now no longer need to keep listening out for a distant bell or revving engine. Reply Hi Melvyn there is an enhancement to my door bell mod using an Arduino Uno and Ethernet Shield that will also message your mobile and send a picture of the caller. Details here ARDUINO PUSH ALERTS
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Signed: April
30, 2015 9:34 AM Name: Eric JungLocation: South Korea Homepage: http://wiznet.co.kr
Hi, Nice to meet you. My name is Eric Jung, at WIZnet in Korea. We have been searching some application references in which WIZnet solution is applied, and found your project "Arduino Push Alerts" using Ethernet Shield. In the Ethernet Shield, WIZnet’s W5100 chip is embedded. Your development looks very cool & smart. Recently we opened WIZnet Museum (http://wiznetmuseum.com) that includes a academic-purposed collection of open projects, tutorials, articles and etc from our global customers. As long as we have your permission, we would like to introduce your project on this website. Thank you very much
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Date Signed: February
04, 2015 8:03 AM Name: Alfred Location: Germany
Comments: I tried to rebukild your LCD Master Clock. But I got errors by the Arduino Program like: serialLCD4x20LED51:46: error: 'LiquidCrystal_I2C' does not name a type serialLCD4x20LED51:51: error: 'TimeChangeRule' does not name a type serialLCD4x20LED51:53: error: 'TimeChangeRule' does not name a type serialLCD4x20LED51:55: error: 'Timezone' does not name a type serialLCD4x20LED51:91: error: 'time_t' does not name a type serialLCD4x20LED51:92: error: 'time_t' does not name a type an so on. So i could not burn the Chip. Is it possible to get an .hex File. Than i could you AVR or PonyProg to burn the 329 Chip. Alfred
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Date Signed: December
13, 2014 6:38 PM
Location: Firs Rd, Kenley Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Weather
Brilliant, absorbing. Thanks for this¬!
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Date Signed: October
17, 2014 1:35 AM Name: Lomond Handley Location: UK Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Photos Comments: It's always a pleasure to browse your beautiful website and thanks for sharing it with us. I remember Kenley in the late 1940's and throughout the early 1950's when my family lived at Monkswood in Abbots Lane, which is now the Acorn Lodge care home. In our garden there were large stones which must have been from the lost village of Watendone, as Monkswood was next door to where the 'new' manor had been built in about 1900 I think and our rockery consisted of huge slabs of medieval stones carefully carved. The ghost that walks Kenley was seen on numerous occasions, once in Zig Zag Road. Thank you again for your beautiful web site.
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Date Signed: September
16, 2014 12:18 AM Name: Ian Macdonald Location: Ottawa, Canada Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Kenley Comments: Thanks for posting the Kenley images, Brett. My home was Valley Road to the age of 12 and I virtually lived on Kenley Common (we called it 'The Woods') when I wasn't imprisoned in Kenley County Primary School. Wonderful images that bring back some of my happiest memories. We left Kenley in 1957 but when asked where I am from I still reply "Kenley' and I still daydream about the Common. Ian Macdonald, Ottawa, Ontario.
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Date Signed: September
05, 2014 6:11 AM Name: Christian MARTINEZ Location: PARIS
Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Master Clock
Hello, Amazing work ! I did a 120 led clock with dcf77 module in 2004... With Atmega board. Old now, but it works well. Very interested in Bluetooth possibility to command clock, and PIR detector to optimize consumption. Why no PCB ?? Now with Kicad and low cost fabrication, you can have what you want for few. I can help you if you want ! Regards. Christian
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Date Signed: July
21, 2014 11:37 PM
Location: Guarulhos São Paulo Brasil
Ótima ideia, muito funcional. (Great idea, very functional.)
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15/07/2014 Name: Clovis dos Santos Pereira Location: Brasil Homepage: http://www.novaeletronica.com.br/ Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc: Electronics - Circuits and Projects Comments: Hello! Excellent project Bicycle Powered Generator. with your permission I will be posting on my site, and link to your great Thanks
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12/07/2014 Name:Christopher Williams Location:United Kingdom Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc: Original Master Clock Comments: Dear Mr Oliver, I'm still interested in building your Discrete Master Clock Mk I design as a gift for my dad but I have been unable to download the booklets in doc/pdf format - could you email a copy of them to me please? Also, is the wooden case you used for your Mk I and Mk II Master clocks available ready-made - your Mk II page suggests it is - I'm hopeless at woodwork! Many thanks, Chris Williams
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Date Signed: June
08, 2014 9:38 PM
Hi Brett Very interested in your LCD master clock based on the Arduino - with some very useful code I'd like to adopt for my own 30 seconds pulse collection if that's OK? You've also cracked the chiming that I want to have as well. It's great to see how you've done it all. I was wondering how the 30 seconds pulse clocks get on with the pulse your system generates which is about a second long - rather than the 200ms-500ms you'd probably get from a mechanical GPO clock 36? Do you use the one second pulses as they are or do you shorten them in any way? My prototype arduino based set-up seems to be quite happy with 100ms pulses but doesn't have all your refinements? Regards Nicholas
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Name: Graham
Gavaghan Location: Lancashire
Hi Brett fantastic bird box footage. I work at Towneley Hall Museum and Art gallery in Lancashire. We are currently setting up a new natural history gallery, would it be possible to use your Blue tit nest box footage to displayed on a tv screen in the gallery.
Reply. - Graham please leave another message with your correct email address. Brett.
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Date Signed: December
31, 2013 2:48 PM Name: niels christiansen Location: Warlingham Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Weather Comments: Hi! Love your site - I use it almost every day to check the weather over the past 24hrs - thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this setup. Noticed that the rain gauge has been off for the past 36hrs - with no precipitation recorded - despite significant rainfall over this period.... Happy New Year! Niels Reply: Hi Niels, Rain gauge fault now fixed.
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Date Signed: December
28, 2013 12:27 AM Name: Lorenzo Location: Vicenza - Italy Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Electronics - Clocks Comments: Got impressed by the very accurate job you've done in assembling and describing master and slave clocks. Is it possible to buy any kit to emulate this job? especially slaves clocks are really nice and dials looks like a mechanical regulator... Did you do by yourself or found a supplier somewhere? Compliments again !
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Date Signed: May
24, 2013 12:44 PM Name: tassos Location: Greece
Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc Binary clock
Please tell me your email in order to ask you a few questions about building the master clock (binary clock) thanks a lot
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Date Signed: May
10, 2013 11:43 AM
Location: Cheshire
Thanks so much for turning your FANTASIC QUALITY web cams on. Im loving seeing what's going on inside the nest boxes.:) I have blue tits nesting in my garden but can't see whats happening inside - i like to pretend its mine. Watching in a screen while I work. thanks so much again. Best wishes. Ann-Marie and Darren Jones
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Date Signed: May
07, 2013 12:59 PM Name: A-M Jones Location: Cheshire Which of my web site's is your comment referring to. eg Weather, Family History etc etc the live streaming
What a beautifully crafted and presented web page I've just happened upon! Can't wait for the live streaming to be on -to see the bird boxes - that's what I was looking for on the internet.
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Date Signed: April
26, 2013 1:50 PM Name: Sheila. Brazier. Nee. Hedicker. Location: Australia
Thanks for your great site.... I lived in Godstone road during ww2, until our house was bombed.... We then moved to Valley Road... Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane..... Sheila Brazier. Nee Hedicker.
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Date Signed: February
02, 2013 2:01 PM Name: Ron Location: Wigan UK
Hi, Why are your nest box cams running? I went to clean my nest boxes out today and found that there are young great tits already! So that was a no go! I expect that yours will already be building or occupied!
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Date Signed: January
28, 2013 10:40 AM Name: Dusty Mueller Location: Germany
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Date Signed: October
21, 2012 10:15 AM Name: John Berman Location: United Kingdom
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Hi Brett,
Last time we chatted, you were in the middle of renovations and the camea had a temporary setup. Is there any way you can adjust the camea so we can see more of the landscape and a bit less of the cloud? Currently 80% of the image is cloud. We all want to marvel at the snow and the surrounds. Can you help us out here?