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Coping with Covid

This blog is being written in the middle of a second wave of Covid-19 cases in Ireland. This virus was first identified in China in December 2019. At the time it wasn’t thought that it would have spread around the world. But spread it did, and there is hardly any populated place in the world […]

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The lightstick – how I made it

A few months ago, I decided to design and build a light stick, having seen some videos on YouTube in which similar tools were used for light painting. I also discovered that you can get addressable LED strips – having multiple LEDs which can be individually controlled not only to turn on and off, but […]

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New Bridge across the Barrow

On the 30th January, the New Ross Bypass opened to traffic, including the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge, which crosses the Barrow. This bridge, being 887m in length, is the longest bridge in Ireland. The bridge is an extradosed bridge, which is a type of cable stayed bridge comprising of tensioned cables connecting pylons to the […]

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