friday fun
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
--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
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!