friday fun
How fast can you read? For some Friday Fun this week we shall create a Python application that will help us to read MUCH more quickly. Reading generally involves our eyes scanning a page of text looking for the next word in the sequence. But we can improve our speed
friday fun
Every maker has their favourite sensor, board, component. For me the humble L298N is my motor controller of choice, the DS18B20 for temperature sensing, and IR obstacle sensor for simple input. But recently I stumbled upon the TMP36, another temperature sensor, but this is an analogue sensor. Meaning that the
microbit
"Libraries gave us power" (c) Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life We now have 60 micro:bit in the hands of all eight libraries in Blackpool and the Fylde coast! Thanks to Amy Hearn from Kirklees Libraries, and the micro:bit Foundation we are taking part
microbit
Time for some friday fun! I really do love Poundland... They stock cheap electronics that can be torn apart and turned into anything you can think of. Right now they have loads of these solar powered bulbs, that are quite hackable. First we can see that they have lots of
thanks
I couldn't resist starting with my own Star Wars crawl, generated using Star Wordz For best results watch on a laptop or tablet So yeah it has now been four years since I left my job as a project manager / sys admin / office drone and started a new
Raspberry Pi
Leeds City Museum Today I had a great day hacking a time machine to life with the children of Leeds. We used a Raspberry Pi, housed inside one of the pi-top CEED devices, kindly donated to me by pi-top as part of the pi-top CHAMPIONS scheme. My workshop was part
pounderland
It'ssssss Pounderland! So today I popped into my local Poundland to look for stuff which I can hack into a time machine project for tomorrow. I found a few bits and pieces. * Solar powered LED bulbs * Slug barrier tape * Mice * Tripod for phone camera * KITT the car from
picademy
Recently at Picademy Birmingham, I set myself a quick challenge. To create a timelapse of the lovely airfield that our training centre overlooked. So I setup a Raspberry Pi Zero W to take a photograph every 1 minute for three hours. I made a quick #PiZeroW based timelapse to capture
arduino
The humble Arduino. Not as powerful as a Raspberry Pi, but you can drop it into countless projects and it will just work, no reboots / crashes...it just works! My first foray into electronics was with an Arduino Uno and since then I have used many other boards. So when
linux format
I was lucky enough to receive the new Pi Zero W in January 2017, and I was truly blown away with this tiny board. My editor was also blown away so he asked me to put together 10 PAGES!! covering this new board! So I got to work! In issue
friday fun
Yeah the GIF is @all_about_code robot made from the Cam Jam Kit 3 and an old cover for a power socket. For some Friday fun this week... It's spreadsheets!!! Before this blog post is hurriedly closed, give me a moment. The other day Laurence Molloy gave
microbit
In early March 2017 I, along with local hacker Dave Gallop were asked by St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School to come along and help them build some supersonic race cars for the Bloodhound SSC project with teams of children designing, building and testing their designs using a