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 stuff that is loaded with sugar, that's cereal. Serial is a connection protocol.
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 a project was to monitor the temperature of the engine, so he purchased a DS18B20 sensor from
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 of topics. For this week's Friday Fun, I'll show you how
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
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 - An insecure connection between computers over a local or world wide network. Used to "see&
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 left my job as a project manager / sys admin / office drone and started a new
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, kindly donated to me by pi-top as part of the pi-top CHAMPIONS scheme. My workshop was part
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 a photograph every 1 minute for three hours. I made a quick #PiZeroW based timelapse to capture
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 me to put together 10 PAGES!! covering this new board! So I got to work! In issue
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 blog post is hurriedly closed, give me a moment. The other day Laurence Molloy gave
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 different to other micro:bit boards...in that it enables the connection of add on boards made
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 coats, to connect the components, which are encased in a plastic shell meaning that small
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,
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 any point in the test? From what I understand if the CPU goes over 80c it will
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 file? Linux files have permissions that control who can see, edit or delete a file. But one
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 issues to the community for free after nine months. So what have I got on
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 the Explorer HAT Pro from Pimoroni. I LOVE this board, so much so that I wrote a
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 that it now uses a splash screen to hide the lines of text
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 install of the tool which I routinely used for magazine articles. Today I revisited the script and
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 — Pete Lomas (@PeteLomasPi) September 10, 2016 Nexdock is a laptop with no hard drive, CPU, memory. Just
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? — Dave Darch (@davedarch) August 22, 2016 There are many ways to run a Python script at boot, but
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 up Les, what is SPI? No it's not another Police forensic series, well to quote
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 a swanky Helix 30cm ruler that folded in half, I thought it was the height of cool!
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 jumped at the chance! So here is Johnny 5, a Pi Zero robot controlled using
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+ pages. For Future's latest bookazine they produced 180 pages of Raspberry Pi projects, reviews and
