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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Custom OBS Controller

Use OBS and need fast access to change a scene, start a recording or mute a mic? Then Keybow may be just what you need!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Star Trek Desk Lights

Control the real world from a Python powered web app...oh and make all the lights flash like you are on the bridge of the USS Enterprise...but no exploding consoles!

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microbit monday

micro:bit Monday - enviro:bit

Do you like science? Do you like sensors? Do you like clapping?...well enviro:bit is for you!

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microbit monday

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

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microbit monday

micro:bit Monday - pin:bit

This time we head over to Sheffield-on-the-sea to learn about a new product from the Pirates at Pimoroni So what is it? pin:bit is a micro:bit to breadboard breakout board. So

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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

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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

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pimoroni

Pimoroni HyperPixel Mega Post!

Have you heard about... HyperPixel!?! So the other day on #BilgeTank, the pirates from Sheffield-on-the-sea released their latest add on board, HyperPixel. It is an 800 x 480 resolution screen for all 40

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friday fun

Pirate Radio

For Friday Fun this week I sat down with another of Pimoroni's Pi Zero W powered project kits. This kit was won in a competition on Pimoroni's Bilge Tank Youtube channel, but as

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Raspberry Pi

I'm in the mood...for hacking

Blinkies...everywhere! You may have noticed, but there was another Raspberry Pi released the other day. Yes we now have the new Pi Zero W, the W stands for Wireless, obvs! So now

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pimoroni

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

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Raspberry Pi

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

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