fridayfun Friday Fun - Custom Key Holder Taking a break from tech this week and in this post we learn how to convert a tool keychain into a folding keyholder.
fridayfun Friday Fun - Six New Projects! Six new projects covering Python, Pi, Arduino and much more!
friday fun Friday Fun - Look No Code! You don't need a Raspberry Pi or Arduino for this project, but you can still dabble with electronics.
friday fun Friday Fun - Hacking Poundland Halloween Electronics Can we hack three items from Poundland into one much better project? Of course we can!
fridayfun Friday Fun - Adafruit Chainsaw Scare more candy while trick or treating by making your own chainsaw...
fridayfun Friday Fun - Neopixel Camera Light Create colourful and artistically lit photos with < £10 of equipment and a little code.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Python Pollen Projects How can we use pollen count data in three different ways? Well read this post and you can try it for yourself.
fridayfun Friday Fun: Being a complete Hidiot! All it took was to tidy my desk... Back in December 2017 RawHex sent me a Hidiot kit, as they knew of my love for the ATtiny85. (Sorry about the delay RawHex...) All
micro python Friday Fun: Adafruit Gemma M0 and Neopixels Friday Fun has been away for three months! Have I been sat around watching TV? Yes....I mean no, I've been busy with work. But I'm back and this time its a personal
arduino Friday Fun: Hacking a Toy Car With 4Duino Disclaimer: These boards were provided by 4tronix for the purpose of the blog post. This isn't a "review" as such, but you can be assured that the comments that I make
fridayfun Friday Fun: Get Notifications On Your Desktop Bit of a personal project this week, created to meet a specific need, but it contains some useful Python libraries for creating notifications and parsing RSS feeds. So I spend a lot of
fridayfun Friday Fun: Bluedot Presentation Tool Presentations...fun aren't they? For the serious presenter a "clicker" remote is a must! You know what I mean, the person at the front, wielding the power of the presentation using
friday fun Friday Fun: Envirophat Colour Detector I'm back at Picademy...yay!!! You may have seen that this week I was back at Picademy! Yay! Two days of learning, sharing and making. One of the projects caught my eye, and
friday fun Friday Fun: Intro to Node-RED I've recently developed a love for Node-RED... At first I was afraid, I was petrified, of this language as it seemed so far removed from what I would normally use. But isn't it
microbit Friday Fun: Sending Serial Data From micro:bit to laptop Cereal Killer If you haven't seen Hackers yet, then rectify that ASAP. ^^^ Yes this is "Cereal Killer" aka the dude who plays Shaggy in Scooby Doo...jinkies! Serial, no not the
electronics Friday Fun: DIY MP3 Player The finished project, ok there are still a few things to do, but it is ready for its debut How cheap can an MP3 player be? What if I said £1-2...would you
friday fun Friday Fun QR Code Madness! Yeah that's the Greggs logo in a QR code for this website QR codes, (Quick Response), are all around us. We see them on adverts, newspapers, drinks bottles. They are a quick way
friday fun Friday Fun: Get the news with RSS and GUI Zero I'll come out and admit it, I am a news junkie, have been since I was a teenager. I like to keep up to date with what is going on, across a variety
friday fun Healthy Eating with Python *Click on the Play button to run the code* This blog post was inspired by Mr Rooney's tweet. fit = input("what is your diet?")if fit == "beer and kebab"
Windows Friday Fun: Directly Connecting to your Raspberry Pi How can I connect to a Raspberry Pi? SSH - A Secure connection between computers over a local or world wide network. Typically in the form of a command line interface (shell) VNC
friday fun Friday Fun: Speed Reading With Python 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
friday fun Using a TMP36 sensor with micro:bit 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
microbit #Pounderland Solar Powered micro:bit 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
friday fun Cheap Robotics 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
microbit micro:bit Infrared Timing Gate 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