tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Glances Keep an eye on all your systems, both near and far. Audit their usage automatically, and save yourself some time for that extra coffee break.
Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB Desktop Setup Did somebody say...MOAR RAM!? Happy New Pi 4 Day Today the latest Raspberry Pi 4 model was released, and it comes with even more RAM. 8GB of DDR4 RAM to be exact.
tuesdaytooling TuesdayTooling: scrcpy Record, display, interact with your Android phone, over USB from your desktop!
microbit monday micro:bit Monday: Valenta Off-Roader Build yourself a tiny micro:bit controlled robot car with this fun little kit. I got early access to a prototype kit for this review!
python Tuesday Tooling: Working with ZIP files in Python A quick and easy introduction to using ZIP files with Python.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Grub Customizer Fancy customising your Grub menu? Want a cool image to greet you as you power on? Then this is the tool for you.
microcontroller monday Microcontroller Monday: Lego Spike Prime A Lego designed electronics platform with MicroPython at its heart! What is there not to love?
star wars Which Star Wars character are you? Are you a Jedi or a Sith? A smuggler, bounty hunter, princess, droid, wookie, or stormtrooper? With a little Scratch coding we will soon find out!
fridayfun Tuesday Tooling on a Fun Friday: Bashtop! Monitor everything on your Linux box with this great tool! It feels like I am working in a high tech 1980s control centre!
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: PyBoy - Python Gameboy emulator A Nintendo Gameboy, in Python, but this is so much more than just for playing games.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Commodore Coding Concepts Learning to code in the 1980s wasn't too far removed from today. And here is the proof!
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: PROGRAM-O-TRON Need to bulk flash a load of Arduino ATMEGA chips? Then this piece of kit will save you some time!
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: MAKER-DRIVE! A £3 motor controller aimed directly at beginners! Seriously, this is so easy to use!
fridayfun Friday Fun: Light up a life! Light up the lives of our key workers! Here is one project that we can build using arts and crafts materials. We will look at four common boards and how we can use them in the project.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling - Make ebooks from markdown with Pandoc I wanted to make my own ebook, so I learnt a few basic steps via Pandoc a tool to convert files from one format to another.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Lockdown Projects Bored and need something to do? Well here are a bunch of free tutorials taken from the pages of Linux Format magazine.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: USB Tester Bonanza! Need to test some USB power supplies, powerbanks, USB devices? Then here are the testers for the job.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Raspberry Pi Imager Need to flash SD cards with the latest Raspbian release? Here you go!
fridayfun Friday Fun: TinyGo on Arduino TinyGo, what is it and how easy is it to use? Read on my friend!
neopixel Friday Fun - Late Edition : Tiny Neopixels Super tiny neopixel LEDs from Aliexpress, but are they any good? I took the hit for you!
fridayfun Friday Fun: Cheap soldering irons I take two CHEAP soldering irons through their paces so you don't have to! Well unless you really want to.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Filestack Need to upload a file for use in a project? Don't want to faff with Dropbox, Google Drive, servers? Try Filestack, it might just save you some time.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Making an LED blink...with a Commodore 64 Make an LED blink using a Commodore 64! Yes this is 2020, and yes I am doing this for fun, with a little bit of learning too!
