Homemade salted caramel and honeycomb ice cream

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Homemade Salted Caramel and Honeycomb ice cream

Homemade Salted Caramel and Honeycomb ice cream

Spring is finally here! Lambs are gambolling in the field, birds are tweeting and the sun is actually casting a shadow, so that means it’s time for another batch of ice cream. This isn’t the first time I’ve made salted caramel ice cream, nor the first time I’ve made it all from scratch, but this is the first time I’ve written down the recipe so I don’t have to work it out next time. This combines the texture of a frozen custard with the caramel flavour and the popcorn crunch of honeycomb to make a frozen tasty treat that’s packed full of unhealthiness.

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Salted caramel sauce

Caramel Sauce

Caramel Sauce


Making caramel is hard, but making a caramel sauce at home is surprisingly easy, taking three ingredients and just a matter of a few minutes, albeit a few minutes of paying close attention to the stove with a whisk.

I’ve got a few uses for caramel sauce and I wanted to write down my recipe so that Google can find it more easily for me next time.

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Raspberry Pi Ultrasound Sonar Range Sensing

SRF02 sensor. About the size of 20p.

SRF02 sensor. About the size of 20p.


I thought it would be fun if my robot could take measurements of its environment so that it can eventually create maps of its world. My budget won’t quite stretch to a spinning laser beam to create a LIDAR point cloud, so I’m starting out with a ultrasound sensor and an infrared sensor, connected to my Raspberry Pi using its I2C bus. This article explains how I set up the ultrasound sonar sensor.

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