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Les Pounder

Les Pounder

Tinkerer, maker, hacker, teacher, writer, learner, failure.

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Glob

Need to find some files using Python? We've got what you need!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - HCSR04P Ultrasonic Sensor

A 3V compliant ultrasonic sensor for your next robot world domination project!

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python

From Faker to Maker - My journey in learning to code

My experiences learning to code and helping others to code...

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Windows Serial Checker...from Linux!

Need to find out your Windows serial key....but using a Linux distro? Read on!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - #pounderland special

Take apart a Poundland amplifier / speaker...it only costs a quid...honest!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - easygui

Fancy making an easy to use GUI with Python? Well give easygui a try!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Inputs

Need to detect gamepad input in your Python project? Well take a look at this library which offers just what you need!

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tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling - Google Image Search With Python

Learn how to search for images on Google, from Python!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Neopixel Camera Light

Create colourful and artistically lit photos with < £10 of equipment and a little code.

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arduino

Light your way with Arduino...

Take your first step in to Arduino with a very hackable night light project from RasPi.tv.

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Four Python Projects

Four free projects for you to try out with your Raspberry Pi and micro:bit

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Python3 GeoPy

So you want to find something on a map, query a location and use the data in Python 3? I got your back! So what is it? GeoPy.... "makes it easy for

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microbit monday

micro:bit Monday - enviro:bit

Do you like science? Do you like sensors? Do you like clapping?...well enviro:bit is for you!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun Revisited: Pollen Checker v2

More adventures with pollen count data, geo-location and multi platform Python code!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Python3 Web Server

Something simple, yet so handy! A Python 3 web server ready to serve content!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Wago!

Safe, reliable connectors for all manner of projects...Oh and they are cheap!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun: Python Pollen Projects

How can we use pollen count data in three different ways? Well read this post and you can try it for yourself.

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Easy micro:bit Serial Connection

I've covered serial connections quite a lot recently, from micro:bit to laptop, Raspberry Pi, Adafruit Gemma M0. But each time I use my boiler plate serial listener code. It's clunky but it

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microbit monday

micro:bit Monday - Scroll:Bit

This week I would open with a meme such as "They see me scrollin' they hatin'" but that would ultimately lead to me travelling back in time to 2006 when that

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maplin

Using a Displaylink USB3 to HDMI display adaptor with Ubuntu 18.04

phew that title is long and boring... Also from Maplin a USB3 display adapter to HDMI for £8 (was £65!) pic.twitter.com/UgNHY6CSUM— biglesp (@biglesp) May 27, 2018 So I popped

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fridayfun

Friday Fun: Being a complete Hidiot!

All it took was to tidy my desk... Back in December 2017 RawHex sent me a Hidiot kit, as they knew of my love for the ATtiny85. (Sorry about the delay RawHex...) All

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microbit monday

micro:bit Monday - pin:bit

This time we head over to Sheffield-on-the-sea to learn about a new product from the Pirates at Pimoroni So what is it? pin:bit is a micro:bit to breadboard breakout board. So

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micro python

Friday Fun: Adafruit Gemma M0 and Neopixels

Friday Fun has been away for three months! Have I been sat around watching TV? Yes....I mean no, I've been busy with work. But I'm back and this time its a personal

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tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling - USB Soldering Iron

This is the long awaited review of something that I take for granted...soldering irons. But this one is a little different, it runs from USB power! So what is it? A USB

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microbit monday

micro:bit Monday - Kitronik Motor Driver Board

Another Monday...another cool micro:bit add on, and this week we have the Kitronik Motor Driver Board...from errr Kitronik Robots are cool... There I said it! But did you know how

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