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Literally more than 5 people have directed me to the news about the discovery of the world’s largest potato . Everyone wants to know the rea...

Google are trying to sell me AdWords . They sent me an email today offering $100 of free credit. It was enough to make me go and check the...

The original inspiration for this project was an incident at home. My flat-mate Dave wanted to microwave a potato. How long would it take...

Here's a bit of a problem that somebody pointed out to me. Computer screens aren't actually designed to have things held up to them...

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After an embarrassingly long gap of inactivity, I'm making some progress again. There's a shortish list of things to fix before I...

The sliders have gone. Now both calibration and measurement use the diagonal "drag me" icon. The hardest part of this exercise w...

Due to tiredness, and the prospect of yet another 11 hour day in the office tomorrow, I was only able to measure one potato. Despite this ra...

After much time away from the project, I return armed with some brand new kitchen scales. They will be used to calibrate the system, so in ...