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tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling: Build Simple Web Apps with PyWebIO

Create simple and elegant HTML web apps using Python, and yes you can use this with the Raspberry Pi!

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tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling: MAKER-DRIVE!

A £3 motor controller aimed directly at beginners! Seriously, this is so easy to use!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun: Light up a life!

Light up the lives of our key workers! Here is one project that we can build using arts and crafts materials. We will look at four common boards and how we can use them in the project.

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fridayfun

Friday Fun: Lockdown Projects

Bored and need something to do? Well here are a bunch of free tutorials taken from the pages of Linux Format magazine.

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday: Raspberry Pi Imager

Need to flash SD cards with the latest Raspbian release? Here you go!

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quick hack

Quick Hack - Sending messages using BASH

A quick hack to send messages from one PC to another via BASH!

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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: Summer Hacks!

17 Free projects to keep the kids busy all summer long!

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anvil

Friday Fun: Monitor your Pi with Anvil

Hey, you! Fancy writing a web app in Python? An app that shows live data from a running Raspberry Pi? Ok..read on!

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kickstarter

Raspberry Pi: Breadboard Pi Bridge

Want to use your Pi directly on a breadboard? Confused by Broadcom pin mapping? Well read on!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Auto Start a GUI application in Raspbian

Want to load a GUI application when your Raspbian desktop starts up? Well here is the post that you need.

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Six New Projects!

Six new projects covering Python, Pi, Arduino and much more!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - gTTS

Want to enable Python to speak using a natural voice? Well this library will help your computer speak to you!

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - Using VLC with Python

Use Python to control VLC and open up the possibilities of controlling media using sensors and new inputs.

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tuesdaytooling

Tooling Tuesday - HCSR04P Ultrasonic Sensor

A 3V compliant ultrasonic sensor for your next robot world domination project!

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fridayfun

Friday Fun - Four Python Projects

Four free projects for you to try out with your Raspberry Pi and micro:bit

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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.

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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

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fridayfun

Friday Fun: DIY Harry Potter Animated Frame

JK Rowling's Harry Potter is famous the world over, and in her world of wizards, witches and sorcery we have little details that make the world rich with magic and mystery. One of

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Linux

NTP FYI

NTP, Network Time Protocol is the theme of today's post! This isn't the be all and end all, font of all knowledge blog post. Rather an aide memoir. What is NTP? Network Time

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christmas

Traditional Christmas Neopixel Project 2017 Node-RED Edition!

Get a coffee, put your feet up as this is a long one! A short time ago...in a street not so far away.... For 2016 I decorated our window with lots of

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tuesdaytooling

Tuesday Tooling: Making Bluetooth Connections From The Terminal

Yes this is the late edition of Tuesday Tooling...I've been on holiday Scenario: You're connected to your Raspberry Pi / Pocket Chip / Single Board Computer via a terminal session, but you would really

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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

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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

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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

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