microbit
Gareth at 4Tronix is a genius. He produces lots of wonderful boards for the Raspberry Pi, codebug and micro:bit. One of his latest boards is Bit:2:Pi which is a little different to other micro:bit boards...in that it enables the connection of add on boards made
friday fun
It's Friday!! Time for some fun! Hot Wires / Snap Circuits are simple circuit building blocks that are used to teach electronics to small children. They use press studs, similar to those used on coats, to connect the components, which are encased in a plastic shell meaning that small
LED
Blinkies *noun* [blin-kees] A word made up by Les to make LEDs sound even more fun. I love LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), they are the gateway to starting your adventures with electronics. If you can... 1. Control an LED 2. Then you can control a motor 3. Then you can
piday
It'ssssss Pi Day. tl;dr Alex has created a great Kickstarter to enable anyone to hack with the APA102 LEDs and make cool sculptures with light. The Kickstarter is still live and you should go and back it! For this special blog post I took a look at
friday fun
For Friday Fun this week I sat down with another of Pimoroni's Pi Zero W powered project kits. This kit was won in a competition on Pimoroni's Bilge Tank Youtube channel, but as always this post will be impartial and show the good and bad points
Raspberry Pi
Blinkies...everywhere! You may have noticed, but there was another Raspberry Pi released the other day. Yes we now have the new Pi Zero W, the W stands for Wireless, obvs! So now we have a Pi Zero with WiFi (b,g,n) and Bluetooth 4.0, all for $10,
LED
For some Friday Fun this week, lets take a look at making custom LED lights. This all started from a tweet posted by Erin Riley. (Thanks for sharing Erin!) glue gun + silicone mold + LED = gummy bear lights! pic.twitter.com/wSlBkufYXv — Erin Riley (@eeriley99) February 15, 2017 Here we can
python
So I'm sat watching a film called Hackers...cheesy hacker movie set in the 1990s. But I really do like it. Sure the dialogue is really bad, and the hacking is pure Hollywood, but it is a fascinating I think I'll be watching this tonight pic.
Raspberry Pi
Update 15/1/2017 After a good chat with Pete Lomas it seems as though we need to consider other factors for the test to be considered reliable. * Was the CPU throttled at any point in the test? From what I understand if the CPU goes over 80c it will
Linux
An executable file is a file that can be double clicked and it will run automatically. For Windows users you will be familiar with .exe files, but for Linux, what is an executable file? Linux files have permissions that control who can see, edit or delete a file. But one
2016
tl;dr - Happy New Year, Les did a lot of cool things with tech in 2016. Yeah this post is XL sized but full of cool stuff, honest Time is a relative concept, holding a hot pan for a second can feel like an hour! Opening Christmas presents flies
microbit
I have an addiction to WS2812B "Neopixels", those super bright multi colour LEDs that work with almost every micro controller / computer. I recently purchased some from eBay to see if they were any good. I purchased a two 16 pixel rings. And a 24 pixel ring for less