#Mission To Mars! Easter School Mentoring with Software Cornwall

Posted on by Olly Brand

Last week I volunteered as a mentor for the Code Club Cornwall: Mission to Mars Easter School. It's a great project for teenagers interested in programming, electronics, and computer science. Bert and Ernie, two Arduino-powered robots, offer the participants a chance to program self-driving 'Mars Rovers'. Destined to auto-pilot around the surface of Mars. Functionality … Continue reading #Mission To Mars! Easter School Mentoring with Software Cornwall

Getting out of the ground

Posted on by Olly Brand

Cornwall's rich mining heritage is one of the reasons we have our land. It is also a cause for concern when it comes to what's hiding underneath. Fears of contaminated soil, mining features, mining spoil, undocumented offshoots of known/unknown mine shafts, and more. What lies beneath? All of the above could negatively impact the chances of getting a mortgage, and easily cost … Continue reading Getting out of the ground

Planning, fun and games

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This is draft number 101, and long. My longest blog post to date! It's taken a lot of revisions and thoughts to convey my points in anything other than a very negative manner. Our experience with Cornwall Council's Planning department can be summarised as: stressful, miserable and unprofessional. In this post, I hope to salvage something … Continue reading Planning, fun and games

Agile On The Beach #AGILEOTB #ATOB 2013 and 2014

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Last year I had the pleasure of attending Agile On The Beach 2013. My first Agile Conference and first Tech Conference in Cornwall. As a relatively new team to Agile it was a great launch pad, with lots of great ideas and takeaways to try with my team: Agile should always focus on removing barriers from productivity … Continue reading Agile On The Beach #AGILEOTB #ATOB 2013 and 2014