fridayfun Friday Fun: DIY Harry Potter Animated Frame JK Rowling's Harry Potter is famous the world over, and in her world of wizards, witches and sorcery we have little details that make the world rich with magic and mystery. One of
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
hack Build your own micro:bit / codebug / crumble to Snap Circuits adapter So I have a lot of Snap Circuits / Hot Wires / Other brand kits The kids at Blackpool Raspberry Jam love these kits, and we often have groups of kids hacking new ideas to
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
Raspberry Pi Timey Wimey Make Believe in Leeds Leeds City Museum Today I had a great day hacking a time machine to life with the children of Leeds. We used a Raspberry Pi, housed inside one of the pi-top CEED devices,
pounderland Friday Fun: Poundland Edition It'ssssss Pounderland! So today I popped into my local Poundland to look for stuff which I can hack into a time machine project for tomorrow. I found a few bits and pieces. Solar
friday fun Using Hot Wires / Snap Circuits with Raspberry Pi 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
LED Further adventures in making blinkies 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
python Hack the planet!!...With 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,
2016 2016 Retrospective - A Novel 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
microbit Have Yourself A WS2812B Christmas 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
hack Walking in a Winter Pounder Land I popped into Poundland today and had a look around for stuff to hack. Electronics First up, LED lights! I chose some Christmas trees and some blue spiral lights. Both take 3V in
hack Santa's New HAT (Explorer HAT Fun!) Santa always wears a funky red hat when delivering presents across the globe, but the HAT we are looking at in this post is not that. Rather it is a funky board called
arduino Blackpool Makerspace gains a 3D printer Thanks to a kind donation from Paul Court Blackpool Makerspace have their first RepRap 3D printer. The Makerspace team are excited to learn how this printer works and will be spending a few