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tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - easygui Fancy making an easy to use GUI with Python? Well give easygui a try!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Inputs Need to detect gamepad input in your Python project? Well take a look at this library which offers just what you need!
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling - Google Image Search With Python Learn how to search for images on Google, from Python!
fridayfun Friday Fun - Four Python Projects Four free projects for you to try out with your Raspberry Pi and micro:bit
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Python3 GeoPy So you want to find something on a map, query a location and use the data in Python 3? I got your back! So what is it? GeoPy.... "makes it easy for
fridayfun Friday Fun Revisited: Pollen Checker v2 More adventures with pollen count data, geo-location and multi platform Python code!
tuesdaytooling Tooling Tuesday - Python3 Web Server Something simple, yet so handy! A Python 3 web server ready to serve content!
fridayfun Friday Fun: Python Pollen Projects How can we use pollen count data in three different ways? Well read this post and you can try it for yourself.
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling - Python Webbrowser This week a handy Python library that enables us to open a web browser! So what is it? Webbrowser is a Pythonic way to open a web browser on any operating system. Can't
kits All the gear...and lots of ideas! In mid 2017 I was posed a unique challenge "Would you be interested in creating a Raspberry Pi Zero W based kit?" Obviously I jumped at the chance and here it
fridayfun Friday Fun: Get Notifications On Your Desktop Bit of a personal project this week, created to meet a specific need, but it contains some useful Python libraries for creating notifications and parsing RSS feeds. So I spend a lot of
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: Record / Replay Keystrokes With Python For this weeks Tuesday Tooling we take a look at a Python library that offers to simulate and record keyboard input! So what is it called? Keyboard : Record and simulate keyboard events on
fridayfun Friday Fun: Bluedot Presentation Tool Presentations...fun aren't they? For the serious presenter a "clicker" remote is a must! You know what I mean, the person at the front, wielding the power of the presentation using
tuesdaytooling Tuesday Tooling: MkDocs Another Tuesday Tooling blog post, and this week a quick look at a handy tool to create great looking documentation, and best of all it uses Python! tl;dr MkDocs is a great
python Tuesday Tooling: Custom Python Spinners Tooling Tuesday is a new series of short, to the point blog posts that highlight a fun and useful tool for developers, coders, makers, hackers and of course system administrators. For the first
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
python Log all teh data! Log files, sys admins LOVE them. They can be used to look busy, or you can be busy looking through them for data. I remember setting an Asterisk server to show me very
microbit 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
friday fun Friday Fun QR Code Madness! Yeah that's the Greggs logo in a QR code for this website QR codes, (Quick Response), are all around us. We see them on adverts, newspapers, drinks bottles. They are a quick way
Raspberry Pi DS18B20 Temperature Sensor With Python (Raspberry Pi) Yesterday at Liverpool Makefest, which incidentally was great, I spoke to a young man who wanted to use the Raspberry Pi to control his petrol powered radio control car. His first idea for
friday fun Friday Fun: Get the news with RSS and GUI Zero I'll come out and admit it, I am a news junkie, have been since I was a teenager. I like to keep up to date with what is going on, across a variety
friday fun Healthy Eating with Python *Click on the Play button to run the code* This blog post was inspired by Mr Rooney's tweet. fit = input("what is your diet?")if fit == "beer and kebab"
friday fun Friday Fun: Speed Reading With Python How fast can you read? For some Friday Fun this week we shall create a Python application that will help us to read MUCH more quickly. Reading generally involves our eyes scanning a
picademy Planes, Training and Automated File Renaming Recently at Picademy Birmingham, I set myself a quick challenge. To create a timelapse of the lovely airfield that our training centre overlooked. So I setup a Raspberry Pi Zero W to take