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
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
Windows Friday Fun: Directly Connecting to your Raspberry Pi How can I connect to a Raspberry Pi? SSH - A Secure connection between computers over a local or world wide network. Typically in the form of a command line interface (shell) VNC
thanks Four Years Ago... I couldn't resist starting with my own Star Wars crawl, generated using Star Wordz For best results watch on a laptop or tablet So yeah it has now been four years since I
Raspberry Pi Timey Wimey Make Believe in Leeds Leeds City Museum Today I had a great day hacking a time machine to life with the children of Leeds. We used a Raspberry Pi, housed inside one of the pi-top CEED devices,
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
linux format Linux Format 223 - Pi Zero W 10 Page Special I was lucky enough to receive the new Pi Zero W in January 2017, and I was truly blown away with this tiny board. My editor was also blown away so he asked
friday fun Cheap Robotics Yeah the GIF is @all_about_code robot made from the Cam Jam Kit 3 and an old cover for a power socket. For some Friday fun this week... It's spreadsheets!!! Before this
microbit Bit:2:Pi Gareth at 4Tronix is a genius. He produces lots of wonderful boards for the Raspberry Pi, codebug and micro:bit. One of his latest boards is Bit:2:Pi which is a little
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
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
Raspberry Pi The Great Raspberry Pi Heatsink Test Update 15/1/2017 After a good chat with Pete Lomas it seems as though we need to consider other factors for the test to be considered reliable. Was the CPU throttled at
Linux Executable files on the Raspberry Pi An executable file is a file that can be double clicked and it will run automatically. For Windows users you will be familiar with .exe files, but for Linux, what is an executable
resources Free Resources Hello! I've just updated my projects page with six resources that have just been made Creative Commons. These resources were written approximately one year ago for Linux Voice magazine who graciously gift their
hack Santa's New HAT (Explorer HAT Fun!) Santa always wears a funky red hat when delivering presents across the globe, but the HAT we are looking at in this post is not that. Rather it is a funky board called
Raspberry Pi Splash Hacks: Editing the Raspbian splash screen So we've all seen the new Raspbian desktop released at the end of September. I have to say it's rather nice, a "proper grown up" desktop. You will have also seen
minecraft Minecraft Pi Screenshot - Revisited A long time ago I wrote a simple install script for an existing Minecraft screenshot tool called raspi2png developed by Andrew from Melbourne. My script served a purpose, in that it automated the
Raspberry Pi Nexdock - Initial Impressions On Friday 9th September I finally got my hands on the Nexdock, a recent crowd funded project that I backed. @biglesp showing off his new @nexdock at @bplraspjam #rjam pic.twitter.com/ZKfS3ARxJS&
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 SPI on the latest Raspbian Jessie --UPDATED 28/7/2016-- This post is more an aide-memoire after I spent a day trying to get SPI working on a Raspberry Pi 2 running the latest Raspbian Jessie release. Back it
GPIO One ruler to errr rule them all! tl;dr Alex has just announced his Kickstarter for this ruler, and I heartily suggest you head over and get one. Everybody wants to rule(r) the world! At high school I had
robot Johnny 5 is alive! It's no secret that I love robots, and when Liz Smart, Code Club Coordinator for the North West asked me along to the Big Bang Fair North West along with some robots...I
Raspberry Pi The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Handbook Since 2013 I have written a lot of Raspberry Pi content for Future Publishing and sometimes this content is collected into special "bookazines", magazines devoted to one topic that cover 100+
Raspberry Pi BETTer late than never... It was a tale of two cities, a game of two halves or some other euphemism. But BETT 2016 seemed centred on bringing the Maker Movement into the classroom. At one end of
Raspberry Pi Museum in the making On August 28 and 29 I was part of the team showcasing the best of Blackpool’s history for an upcoming Blackpool Museum. The event was called “Museum in the making” and merged