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Get a coffee, put your feet up as this is a long one! A short time ago...in a street not so far away.... For 2016 I decorated our window with lots of neopixels Neopixel Christmas lights! pic.twitter.com/Rdyx47I8HI — biglesp (@biglesp) December 10, 2016 But for 2017 I
arduino
Disclaimer: These boards were provided by 4tronix for the purpose of the blog post. This isn't a "review" as such, but you can be assured that the comments that I make are not influenced in any way. I will point out the good and bad openly
tuesdaytooling
Yes this is the late edition of Tuesday Tooling...I've been on holiday Scenario: You're connected to your Raspberry Pi / Pocket Chip / Single Board Computer via a terminal session, but you would really like to use a Bluetooth device...no fancy GUI can help us now!
christmas
Ho Ho Ho Hacky Christmas! Invent:Advent is an accessible, fun and cost effective hack. Join us in creating new invention using components and stock from pound shops (such as Poundland or Poundworld). The theme for this hack is Christmas, and pound shops have a lot of cool stuff that
tuesdaytooling
This week's Tuesday Tooling is a terminal application that can save you time and sanity by sending text to a pastebin. So what is it called? Pastebinit Where can I find it? It is on Launchpad Who made it? Pastebinit is currently written by Stephane Graber. What can
fridayfun
Bit of a personal project this week, created to meet a specific need, but it contains some useful Python libraries for creating notifications and parsing RSS feeds. So I spend a lot of time researching, reading and looking for the latest news, mainly Raspberry Pi news because we all know
tuesdaytooling
For this weeks Tuesday Tooling we take a look at a Python library that offers to simulate and record keyboard input! So what is it called? Keyboard : Record and simulate keyboard events on Windows and Linux. Where can I find it? You can find it on pypi Who made it?
fridayfun
Presentations...fun aren't they? For the serious presenter a "clicker" remote is a must! You know what I mean, the person at the front, wielding the power of the presentation using a clicker to advance the slides. But clickers aren't cheap, and for most
tuesdaytooling
Another Tuesday Tooling blog post, and this week a quick look at a handy tool to create great looking documentation, and best of all it uses Python! tl;dr MkDocs is a great tool to write documentation in markdown, which is then converted by MkDocs (Python) in to a static
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It's nearly Halloween! The night when creatures of pure evil roam the land, seeking their next victim! No brains were harmed...or found during the creation of this photo So... How can we scare them away? There are lots of evil spirits in this picture, can you find
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Tooling Tuesday is a new series of short, to the point blog posts that highlight a fun and useful tool for developers, coders, makers, hackers and of course system administrators. For the first in the series of Tueday Tooling blog posts, I have chosen to highlight a rather fun and
friday fun
I'm back at Picademy...yay!!! You may have seen that this week I was back at Picademy! Yay! Two days of learning, sharing and making. One of the projects caught my eye, and it was a project that used the Pi Camera to detect a colour. But why