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Tooling Tuesday - Ampy
Write code to your ESP8266, ESP32 and other MicroPython / CircuitPython boards with this little command line tool!
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Tooling Tuesday - Wemos D1 Mini & MicroPython
Learn how to use MicroPython on a $2 board...oh and blink LEDs!
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Friday Fun - Adafruit Chainsaw
Scare more candy while trick or treating by making your own chainsaw...
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Friday Fun - Four Python Projects
Four free projects for you to try out with your Raspberry Pi and micro:bit
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Tooling Tuesday - Easy micro:bit Serial Connection
I've covered serial connections quite a lot recently, from micro:bit to laptop, Raspberry Pi, Adafruit Gemma M0. But each time I use my boiler plate serial listener code. It's clunky but it works. But for this Tooling Tuesday I've found something easy to
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micro:bit Monday - Scroll:Bit
This week I would open with a meme such as "They see me scrollin' they hatin'" but that would ultimately lead to me travelling back in time to 2006 when that meme was popular.. Instead lets take a look at another add on board for the
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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 project...! */me pauses for laughs* Meet Gemma M0 Last week I was in
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micro:bit Monday - Kitronik Motor Driver Board
Another Monday...another cool micro:bit add on, and this week we have the Kitronik Motor Driver Board...from errr Kitronik Robots are cool... There I said it! But did you know how easy it is to build your first robot? There is a phrase that I have used for
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Friday Fun: Radio Controlled micro:bit Pumpkin 🎃
It's nearly Halloween! The night when creatures of pure evil roam the land, seeking their next victim! No brains were harmed...or found during the creation of this photo So... How can we scare them away? There are lots of evil spirits in this picture, can you find
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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 stuff that is loaded with sugar, that's cereal. Serial is a connection protocol.
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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 I stumbled upon the TMP36, another temperature sensor, but this is an analogue sensor. Meaning that the
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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 Bloodhound SSC project with teams of children designing, building and testing their designs using a