Its upgrade time!
Lighting in the rear of the Landy is pretty bad, we have the one passenger compartment light to illuminate the interior.
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Team90 HERO Throckmorton 2015
Source: HERO Throckmorton 2015
HERO picture gallery for our car: http://heropictures.photoshelter.com/#!/portfolio/C00009De35k7bGvQ/G0000ca58tEFsrVk
Results from Our Class
| Class 5 – Cars 1975 to 1985 Type | ||||
| 1st | 51 | Nigel Perkins | Pete Johnson | Porsche 911 SC |
| 2nd | 59 | Simon Harris | Russell Joseph | Volkswagen Golf GTi |
| 3rd | 53 | Adie Nicholls | Richard Nicholls | Land Rover SWB 90 |
Not bad for an old Land Rover, up against some pretty quick cars with half the weight . This year only 5 none entry’s were unable to complete the challenge.
Thanks for the bashed wing mirror
Didn’t bother to stop. Just busted the mirror and caried on going.
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Extending the gearstick on a Land Rover Defender/90
After installing the MUD Dash it became even more apparent the LT85 gearbox has a little more ‘throw’ compared to the LT77 or R380 . Part of the issue is the MUD dash now protrudes from the dash rather then being flush by about 3 inches.
To resolve the constant bashing of buttons you can either bend the gear stick or extend it, I decided to extend as bending the stick will just make it sit lower to the floor when selecting 2nd and 4th and in an upright positing it isn’t to hand as I would like it be.
Extending the gear stick will give it a rally look, gone are the days of shortening a gear stick for a ‘quick-shift’ look as you just need to move your arm/hand further down! These days if you don’t have paddle shift its a better idea to bring the gear knob up as close to the steering wheel as possible, thus less movement to be able to change a gear.
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Raspberry Pi GPIO Start-up Script
On powering/reset of the Raspberry Pi connected to a relay board, the state of the relays needs to be defined or they just sit in limbo until their first use, this might be fine in some application but not others..
For my Raspberry Pi aquarium system, the ‘original‘ Web UI does have a script on loading the webpage to define the pin modes but if there is a power cut and the RPi is restarted, we need these values set and activated when the RPi boots in case nobody loads the piTank webpage directly after a reboot – thus critical components wont be turned on.
The fix to this issue is gpiobootscript.sh
