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!
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!
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!
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 meme was popular.. Instead lets take a look at another add on board for the
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 you can use cheap / plentiful standard electronic components with the micro:bit without lots of crocodile clips.
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 it was a project that used the Pi Camera to detect a colour. But why
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 believe me? Well it is true, thanks to the GPD2846A a simple circuit board which I purchased
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 pin GPIO models of Raspberry Pi that can display 60fps and has 18-bit colour depth! All for
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 always this post will be impartial and show the good and bad points
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 we have a Pi Zero with WiFi (b,g,n) and Bluetooth 4.0, all for $10,
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 statuses! Pimoroni's new Mote kit is a light control board powered by an
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 B+ The B+ has extra GPIO pins and two of those pins are used with
