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
microbit 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
friday fun Using Hot Wires / Snap Circuits with Raspberry Pi It's Friday!! Time for some fun! Hot Wires / Snap Circuits are simple circuit building blocks that are used to teach electronics to small children. They use press studs, similar to those used on
python Hack the planet!!...With Python So I'm sat watching a film called Hackers...cheesy hacker movie set in the 1990s. But I really do like it. Sure the dialogue is really bad, and the hacking is pure Hollywood,
python Enabling a Python script to launch when booting a Raspberry Pi Hello, this blog post was inspired by Dave Darch... @biglesp @martinohanlon @LegoJames @guru What's best way to launch a .py file at boot, headless. Eg. drums.py from Explorerhat...systemd?—
Raspberry Pi Using Raspberry Pi in museums Blackpool has a long history of entertainment with many big names coming to Blackpool during it's "Golden Age". I was recently asked by Blackpool Council to provide a Raspberry Pi workshop
python Trinket - Hacking Python in the browser Hacking Python in the browser! At a recent Code Club regional meeting I learnt of a very handy way of writing Python in the browser. Trinket.io is a browser based Python editor
hacking Micro Python Python is my favourite language and it has been my favourite for around three years. Why? Well because I understand it and I can use it to make different projects. I also enjoy
hacking FT232H GPIO Breakout board Recently I've received many different micro controller boards but one that has rally caught my eye is the Adafruit FT232H. But why? Well it enables any computer to have GPIO pins that can