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Friday Fun: Intro to Node-RED

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 just Scratch...with wires? Well yeah Node-RED is a block based languages, but

Further adventures in making blinkies

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 you can... 1. Control an LED 2. Then you can control a motor 3. Then you can

Hot Glue Madness

Hot Glue Madness

For some Friday Fun this week, lets take a look at making custom LED lights. This all started from a tweet posted by Erin Riley. (Thanks for sharing Erin!) glue gun + silicone mold + LED = gummy bear lights! pic.twitter.com/wSlBkufYXv — Erin Riley (@eeriley99) February 15, 2017 Here we can

Red Alert - Work in progress

Red Alert - Work in progress

My love of Star Trek is well known and so when I got the chance to play around with Pimoroni's new Mote lights, well there was only one thing to do. Simulate alert statuses! Pimoroni's new Mote kit is a light control board powered by an

Blinky Lights

LEDs are wonderful things! The humble LED provides us with illumination, it indicates when a device is on standby and it can teach anyone the basics of controlling a physical device with a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Codebug or micro:bit. LEDs are great and I always need them, so when

Unicorns wearing HAT

No I haven't gone mad, I have a unicorn wearing a HAT on my Raspberry Pi. Ok let me explain, the Unicorn HAT is a new board designed especially for the Raspberry Pi B+ The B+ has extra GPIO pins and two of those pins are used with