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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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circuitpython

Hailing frequencies open...

Pounder to Enterprise, do the replicators serve Greggs?

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Tuesday Tooling: Simulate Keyboard and Mouse Input with Python

Simulate a keyboard and moue using Python.

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Tuesday Tooling: That's Rich!

Make the Python REPL unique with a little help from rich!

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Tuesday Tooling: Copy & Paste From the Terminal and Python

Copy / paste, we do this all day. So lets automate it!

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microbit monday

Monday micro:bit: Micro:bit X Raspberry Pi

I spent $13 on this, so you don't have to.

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Tuesday Tooling: Stack Overflow in the Terminal!

Search StackOverflow from the terminal! Now you can be the ultimate problem solver!

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monday microcontroller

Monday Microcontroller: Adafruit CLUE

What can a CLUE-do that a micro:bit can't? Find out here!

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Tuesday Tooling: Windows SystemInfo

Get data about your Windows machine, or a remote machine on the same domain using this handy tool.

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fridayfun

Friday Fun: How to Tweak a £10 HDMI to USB Capture Device

Got £10 spare and need a USB 2 to HDMI capture device? Well you are in luck.

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Tuesday Tooling: hasciicam

Are you the one? Do you know Kung-Fu? Is there a spoon? I can't answer these questions, but I can put you in The Matrix.

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monday microcontroller

Monday Microcontroller: MAKER UNO

An Arduino Uno clone, but designed with education in mind? Surely we've seen this before?

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Tuesday Tooling: USB Arcade Controls

I love to play arcade games, and I really love to play those games with a proper arcade controller.

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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.

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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.

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TuesdayTooling: scrcpy

Record, display, interact with your Android phone, over USB from your desktop!

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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!

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python

Tuesday Tooling: Working with ZIP files in Python

A quick and easy introduction to using ZIP files with Python.

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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.

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microcontroller monday

Microcontroller Monday: Lego Spike Prime

A Lego designed electronics platform with MicroPython at its heart! What is there not to love?

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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!

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