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Tuesday Tooling: Wokwi Circuit Simulator

Make circuits without the hardware. On the bus, train, sofa, whereever the inspiration hits you!

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Tuesday Tooling: Build Simple Web Apps with PyWebIO

Create simple and elegant HTML web apps using Python, and yes you can use this with the Raspberry Pi!

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ESP32

Friday Fun: Micro Weather Station

Friday Fun is back and this time we go micro!

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Tuesday Tooling: ray.so

Need to include a code snippet in a document or poster? Want it to look nice? You might want to try this.

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Tuesday Tooling: sh

The return of Tuesday Tooling and we start with a little Python module for when we need to "just run that one terminal command".

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Primark

NeoPixel Beautification Experiment

Turn a boring make up light bar into a NeoPixel powered flashing fun fest with just a little code and some soldering.

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Tuesday Tooling: cmdpxl

Create and edit pixel images, using Python via the Terminal, oh and using the keyboard WASD keys.

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Tuesday Tooling: Nerd-Dictation

Tired of typing? Try talking to your computer, it will guess most of the words correctly, often leading to a little fun.

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attiny85

Tuesday Tooling: ATTinyCore

A tiny board with lots of possibilities

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linux format

Summer Holiday Hacks!

Six new projects for the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Python, Go and Electronics

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Tuesday Tooling: PinePower Desktop PSU

A robust, easy to use, multi-voltage power supply that doesn't eat all of my desk!

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python

Tuesday Tooling: Visualise Data in the Terminal

You don't need a desktop to visualise data, we can do it all with Python directly in the terminal.

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toms hardware

Once More Around the Sun

June 1st 2021 marks my first anniversary at Tom's Hardware as Associate Editor. In this short space of time I've covered many Raspberry Pi announcements, written tutorials in multiple languages...

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Tuesday Tooling: CPUFetch & Neofetch

Two simple applications to learn more about your Linux machine.

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Windows

Tuesday Tooling: Ninite

Automate bulk installation of Windows apps with ninite.

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Tuesday Tooling: Get The Message

Get the most from dmesg and easily diagnose those issues.

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circuitpython

Monday Microcontroller: Adafruit Neo Trinkey

Multi-coloured, USB HID device for a pocket money pricetag!

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Tuesday Tooling: Back to BASICs

BASIC was Python for 1980s kids, and it is still popular today!

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Tuesday Tooling: The Right Tool For The Job

These new tools really do "suck" but they make any job a "snip".

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monday microcontroller

Monday Microcontroller: QT Py

Better get the banana for scale re-calibrated as this board is TINY...and cute.

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Tuesday Tooling: Colorzilla

Need a colour quickly? Colorzilla is a great free tool to get RGB and hex colour codes from webpages to your clipboard.

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Tuesday Tooling: Pico Mix

You've got a Pico, but are there any extra tools to help your hacks? Of course there are, and here you go!

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Tuesday Tooling: Plot Maps With Python

Use a little Python code to add points of interest to a map.

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Tuesday Tooling: Build Pretty Python Interfaces

Asking questions has never been so useful!

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Tuesday Tooling: Flex-C-Friend

Do you envy TS80 owners for their USB C jack? Well envy no more as Brian Lough's Flex-C-Friend bring USB C to the TS100!

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