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Creating a VNC connection Controlling a Raspberry Pi using VNC is a great way to remotely control a robot. But how can you do it? For this project you will need. * A Raspberry Pi * A WIFI dongle * Monitor * Keyboard * Mouse * Power Supply Pre-requisites Your Raspberry Pi will need a working
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Python is my favourite language and it has been my favourite for around three years. Why? Well because I understand it and I can use it to make different projects. I also enjoy hacking micro controllers so what if there were a micro controller based on Python....well there is
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At a recent Picademy Bytes CPD session I was asked by Monica "How can I connect my laptop to a Raspberry Pi?" Good question! Monica was keen to take her Pi on holiday and hack around with it, but she didn't fancy taking a large screen
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I love the CodeBug, it is so accessible to children but yet it provides a platform for more advanced hacking. I was lucky to receive my CodeBug in person from Andrew Robinson and so I've been hacking on and off for a few days. The "Hello World&
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If you are like me then you probably host a lot of Raspberry Pi themed events. You've probably built up quite a stash of kit, including around 20 Raspberry Pi. So what do you do if you need to create a bunch of SD cards in a rush?
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Recently I've received many different micro controller boards but one that has rally caught my eye is the Adafruit FT232H. But why? Well it enables any computer to have GPIO pins that can be controlled using Python similar to the Raspberry Pi. The board comes as a kit,
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Controlling your Raspberry Pi over a network is a really handy thing to do, but how can you do it? Well in this tutorial I show you how to setup a VNC server on your Raspberry Pi and connect to it via a laptop / tablet using a VNC client. What
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Ubuntu on a phone? I've been a Linux user since I discovered Corel Linux in 1999. Since then I have distro hopped, a term used to describe trying out yet never settling on one particular operating system, from Red Hat, Suse, and eventually ending up for a few
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Being British I have an unatural obsession with the weather. In a taxi my opening gambit is usually "Well, isn't the weather nice/wet/cold ?" to which the poor driver responds with a grunt or explains how weather systems works and then exceeds my level of
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Picademy, the Raspberry Pi Foundation's own brand of CPD training is a fantastic opportunity for teachers to learn more about the Raspberry Pi and how it can revolutionise their delivery of Computing in the classroom. Typically Picademy takes place at Pi Towers in Cambridge, but only very recently
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Codebug!!! tl;dr Get out your credit/debit card and back this great project on Kickstarter. It's a great way for children to get their hands dirty with physical computing and have a cheap platform that will grow with them. My good friend Andrew Robinson has recently launched
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Last night I finished off installing all of the now bleached keys on the keyboard and I have to say that I am rather happy with the result. Sure the keys are not ice white, but they are considerably better than the yellow keys that I started with. So let&