tuesdaytooling
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 Windows and Linux. Where can I find it? You can find it on pypi Who made it?
microbit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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