tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Would you like some toast? It may be late, but this blog post is fresh! Create easy pop ups in any Python project using very little code!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: pdftotext Convert a PDF file to text in Python...and then you can do anything with the text. Even create your own audiobook!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Tio Connect to a serial device, then disconnect, the connect and carry on as if nothing happened!
microbit monday Micro:bit Monday: Servo:bit Connect up to 16 servos and control them from your micro:bit!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Magic Wormhole Need to send a file? All your USB sticks are missing? Use a wormhole!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Pretty Errors in Python Make every error pretty with this handy library.
Linux Saturday Snippet: Setup a local domain name Create a hostname, a local URL for a device on your network!
soldering O' SMD O' Christmas Tree Need a cheap and easy intro to SMD soldering? Well Christmas might come but once a year, but these trees can be soldered all year round.
microbit monday Micro:bit Monday: M.A.R.S Rover Meet R0g3r my new robot who is very curious. He even tried to drive into a cardboard box while exploring my office.
book Micro:bit Monday - micro:bit for Mad Scientists review A good book can spark the fire of imagination.
neopixel Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019! Turn a boring Poundland / Dollarstore Christmas star into an IoT colour changing star! All we need is a little time and some code!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: MQTT PDQ Want to send messages across the world to multiple devices? Well MQTT is what you need
quick hack Quick Hack - Sending messages using BASH A quick hack to send messages from one PC to another via BASH!
fridayfun Friday Fun - Custom OBS Controller Use OBS and need fast access to change a scene, start a recording or mute a mic? Then Keybow may be just what you need!
microcontroller monday Microcontroller Monday - Simple Button Detection A button can do anything that you want, you just need to tell it what to do!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - ngrok ngrok, is something that you may find useful to expose a development server across the Internet via a secure tunnel. Handy!
fridayfun Friday Fun - SMS Controlled Neopixels SMS is the most available method of communication, it works across the world on every level of network. So why don't we use it to control some Neopixels connected to a Raspberry Pi? Using Node-RED and Nexmo we can do it!!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Nexmo API and Python Want to learn how to send an SMS via Python and node-RED? Well there is an API for that!
microcontroller monday Microcontroller Monday - Adafruit FT232H - CircuitPython Need a few GPIO pins on your big stonking powerful PC? Then you need this.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Mirabox USB3 HDMI Capture Device An HDMI 1080p 60fps video capture device that works with Linux, Mac and Windows? Surely the thing of fantasy?!
circuitpython Microcontroller Monday - Serpente It looks like an ATTINY85 but no, this is a lot more board for your money. Oh and it runs CircuitPython
arduino Reading an NFC tag with a Linksprite NFC Shield v1.0 A long time ago, national electronics store Maplin closed down. I got quite a bit of gear, cheap! And I've finally got the NFC reader and stickers to work with Arduino!
