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microbit monday

Micro:bit Monday: M.A.R.S Rover

Meet R0g3r my new robot who is very curious. He even tried to drive into a cardboard box while exploring my office.

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book

Micro:bit Monday - micro:bit for Mad Scientists review

A good book can spark the fire of imagination.

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neopixel

Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019!

Turn a boring Poundland / Dollarstore Christmas star into an IoT colour changing star! All we need is a little time and some code!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday: MQTT PDQ

Want to send messages across the world to multiple devices? Well MQTT is what you need

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tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling: Node-RED

Make IoT applications by linking nodes of code together...

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quick hack

Quick Hack - Sending messages using BASH

A quick hack to send messages from one PC to another via BASH!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Custom OBS Controller

Use OBS and need fast access to change a scene, start a recording or mute a mic? Then Keybow may be just what you need!

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microcontroller monday

Microcontroller Monday - Simple Button Detection

A button can do anything that you want, you just need to tell it what to do!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - ngrok

ngrok, is something that you may find useful to expose a development server across the Internet via a secure tunnel. Handy!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - SMS Controlled Neopixels

SMS is the most available method of communication, it works across the world on every level of network. So why don't we use it to control some Neopixels connected to a Raspberry Pi? Using Node-RED and Nexmo we can do it!!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Nexmo API and Python

Want to learn how to send an SMS via Python and node-RED? Well there is an API for that!

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oggcamp

Oggcamp 2019

Oggcamp 2019: An awesome event, made possible by an awesome crew.

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microcontroller monday

Microcontroller Monday - Adafruit FT232H - CircuitPython

Need a few GPIO pins on your big stonking powerful PC? Then you need this.

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Mirabox USB3 HDMI Capture Device

An HDMI 1080p 60fps video capture device that works with Linux, Mac and Windows? Surely the thing of fantasy?!

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circuitpython

Microcontroller Monday - Serpente

It looks like an ATTINY85 but no, this is a lot more board for your money. Oh and it runs CircuitPython

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arduino

Reading an NFC tag with a Linksprite NFC Shield v1.0

A long time ago, national electronics store Maplin closed down. I got quite a bit of gear, cheap! And I've finally got the NFC reader and stickers to work with Arduino!

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microbit

Pulsing LED with micro:bit

Pulse an LED just like the eye of a Terminator...just don't call it Skynet

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday: Cheap Desoldering Pump

Need something to desolder lots of components? Don't fancy holding a soldering iron AND a desoldering pump? Don't want to spend lots of money? I got ya!

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microcontroller monday

Microcontroller Monday - Control an L298N motor controller with micro:bit

How would you like to control a motor using a micro:bit? Well here is a quick guide to get you started.

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday: pyTelegramBot

Get started with Telegram and Python

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lifehacks

GCSE Results - Choose Your Own Adventure

GCSE results day! But what if you didn't get what you wanted?

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Mega 2560 Pro

Need an Arduino Mega, but can't sacrifice the space? Well here is a board that gives us all the pins, but at less than half the size!

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microcontroller monday

Microcontroller Monday - 4Tronix BIT:170

Breadboarding with a micro:bit just got a little easier

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday: Search Wikipedia with Python!

Search Wikipedia from Python! Read a randomly suggested page, or search for anything you want!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday: wttr

Get the weather direct to your terminal! Who needs a pretty GUI when we have the command line!

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