Neil Hopcroft

I know what I’ll do for Christmas, I’ll knit a Ferrari

Lego guitar hero

Bling Kitty-chan laptop

…and not the cute cat you thought

Forevertron

We got the power

But when I went to hold her hand, There was an eyeball in her glove

Fear not, I’ve not forgotten the pylons

Porsche abuse…6 wheels?

Audio books – nice idea but there is a very good reason why that particular shade of green doesn’t feature on my normal desktop

Evel Knievel dies – goodbye to the man who started it all

Pavement art

Power table

Unicef photos of the year

I was last seen heading toward Stockholm and nobody has heard from me since. Well, I’m still alive, and you can see a little of what I’ve seen here in my new Adventures in Stockholm blog. It all started on National Cinnamon Bun Day and gradually got more photos from there.

Take a look, let me know what you think, what you like and what you dislike, and if anything is broken so I can fix it.

Address:      c/o Memory Hotel, Apartment 448, Postbox 1092, 164 25 Kista, Sweden
Sweden phone: +46 736232973
Mobile phone: +44 7970 712888
Skype:        neilhopcroft
SkypeIn:      +44 20 81332634
Voip phone:   +44 20 70435953 
SIP:          sip:2015650@SIP.Gradwell.net
Email:        neil-lj@hopcroft.org.uk

Directions: From Kista T-bana station, take the exit closest to the Filmstaden, turn right at the bottom of the steps, walk straight through the Galleria, past McDonalds, keep walking over a couple of road bridges, you should find Electrum Conference Centre then Memory Hotel shortly afterwards.

Whats your favorite test tone generation algorithm?

I’m looking for a noise that can be programmatically generated, is fairly pleasant to listen to and is obvious if it isn’t correctly sequenced or if there are dropouts between buffers. This afternoons crude ‘top three bits of address in buffer’ algorithm generates a horrible jagged saw wave.

I don’t want to spend weeks coding it but also I want to use it for weeks of testing the digital part of an audio system, which means its got to be OK to listen to for that long. My current best hope is a sine wave of settable frequency allowing at least some expression to the tests. But maybe you can think of something better?

Creature discomforts

Terminus – concrete stalker

Passengers are reminded that a smile is a friendship gesture, not a sign of weakness (cf Twisted mangled metal, generously drizzled with engine oil and Felt tips, pump bags and UPVC conservatories, a living hell)

Abandoned laboratory of studying a human brain

Wind dam

Modern ruins

Fall of the Dammed lamp

Sweet toast of mine (pirates)

John Peel Torrents

Is the cow damaged in any way during descent?

Accordion Hero

(I am now, you will be pleased to hear, on a new machine, so I have screen real-estate again)

At last, someone answers the question of what you would get if Abba were German but wanted to be Russian (for most hilarity check out the videos in comments too)

Nokia Audiobooks (anyone got an AMRWB decoder for desktop?)

A song for^wfrom the road

USB Microscope

We had spray cheese…now spray pancakes

Password cracking using graphics card (I know this isn’t exactly news, but it is a demonstration that it is practical to do general purpose compute intensive operations on widely available co-processors)

To somewhere safer where the feeling stays – Mercedes museum architect aims for style over function.

VAXen reborn, as folding keyboard

The Osaka Police Purchased 800 of these lights for use on special patrol cars that cruise through school zones.

What looks like a rusty old shipping container from the outside turns into a posh “living space” at the touch of a button

Pickled pets (not for the squeamish)