tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: PROGRAM-O-TRON Need to bulk flash a load of Arduino ATMEGA chips? Then this piece of kit will save you some time!
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: MAKER-DRIVE! A £3 motor controller aimed directly at beginners! Seriously, this is so easy to use!
fridayfun Friday Fun: Light up a life! Light up the lives of our key workers! Here is one project that we can build using arts and crafts materials. We will look at four common boards and how we can use them in the project.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling - Make ebooks from markdown with Pandoc I wanted to make my own ebook, so I learnt a few basic steps via Pandoc a tool to convert files from one format to another.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Lockdown Projects Bored and need something to do? Well here are a bunch of free tutorials taken from the pages of Linux Format magazine.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: USB Tester Bonanza! Need to test some USB power supplies, powerbanks, USB devices? Then here are the testers for the job.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Raspberry Pi Imager Need to flash SD cards with the latest Raspbian release? Here you go!
fridayfun Friday Fun: TinyGo on Arduino TinyGo, what is it and how easy is it to use? Read on my friend!
neopixel Friday Fun - Late Edition : Tiny Neopixels Super tiny neopixel LEDs from Aliexpress, but are they any good? I took the hit for you!
fridayfun Friday Fun: Cheap soldering irons I take two CHEAP soldering irons through their paces so you don't have to! Well unless you really want to.
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Filestack Need to upload a file for use in a project? Don't want to faff with Dropbox, Google Drive, servers? Try Filestack, it might just save you some time.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Making an LED blink...with a Commodore 64 Make an LED blink using a Commodore 64! Yes this is 2020, and yes I am doing this for fun, with a little bit of learning too!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Get Transport Data Get live data for trains, buses, coaches, ferries in the UK using a very cool API and a little JSON knowledge.
microcontroller monday Microcontroller Monday - Wemos W600 Pico A smaller board for IoT projects! It comes pre-loaded with MicroPython and we can build Internet connected things with it...or flash an LED!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Would you like some toast? It may be late, but this blog post is fresh! Create easy pop ups in any Python project using very little code!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: pdftotext Convert a PDF file to text in Python...and then you can do anything with the text. Even create your own audiobook!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Tio Connect to a serial device, then disconnect, the connect and carry on as if nothing happened!
microbit monday Micro:bit Monday: Servo:bit Connect up to 16 servos and control them from your micro:bit!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Magic Wormhole Need to send a file? All your USB sticks are missing? Use a wormhole!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday: Pretty Errors in Python Make every error pretty with this handy library.
Linux Saturday Snippet: Setup a local domain name Create a hostname, a local URL for a device on your network!
soldering O' SMD O' Christmas Tree Need a cheap and easy intro to SMD soldering? Well Christmas might come but once a year, but these trees can be soldered all year round.
