Raspberry Pi
Origins
I’ll let you into a secret. I’ve not always been a programmer, in fact I’ve only been programming for a few years. Ok compose yourself, get a brandy or a cup of tea and carry on reading. I know it’s hard to believe but just over
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Micro:bit
Last weekend, August 15 and 16, the BBC were in Blackpool as part of their Make it Digital roadshow. I was lucky enough to be asked along to help deliver a day long workshop, all about a new micro controller platform.... Micro:bit Micro:bit is small micro controller powered
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Micro Python
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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Directly Connecting To a Raspberry Pi
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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CodeBug - First steps
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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Staying sane - Your guide to writing multiple Raspberry Pi SD cards
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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FT232H GPIO Breakout board
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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Using Python to get weather data
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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Apple A1048 - Almost there! #sysadminA1048
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&
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Smile - You're on Minecraft Camera
Minecraft Pi is considered to be one of the killer apps that ships with the Raspberry Pi. I do a lot of work for web and print magazines and they always want a nice clean way to get high quality screenshots, and this is where we have an issue. Typically
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#sysadminA1048 - Bleaching the keys
Earlier this week I ordered a few key components for my Apple A1048 keyboard restoration / hack. I needed some Hydrogen Peroxide (9% strength) and a UV light source. So off to Amazon I went and picked up the Hydrogen Peroxide and for the UV source I found a cheap UV
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Hacking Apple A1048 Keyboard
Confession - I love early 2000s Apple design asthetics. So when I had the chance to own an A1048 mechanical keyboard...I jumped at the chance. The keyboard itself was a little unloved, being left in a storage rooms for years. So I took it home and photographed it as