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Friday Fun: Envirophat Colour Detector
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Friday Fun: Envirophat Colour Detector

I'm back at Picademy...yay!!! You may have seen that this week I was back at Picademy! Yay! Two days of learning, sharing and making. One of the projects caught my eye, and it was a project that used the Pi Camera to detect a colour. But why
06 Oct 2017 6 min read
DS18B20 Temperature Sensor With Python (Raspberry Pi)
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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
25 Jun 2017 5 min read
Using a TMP36 sensor with micro:bit
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Using a TMP36 sensor with micro:bit

Every maker has their favourite sensor, board, component. For me the humble L298N is my motor controller of choice, the DS18B20 for temperature sensing, and IR obstacle sensor for simple input. But recently I stumbled upon the TMP36, another temperature sensor, but this is an analogue sensor. Meaning that the
19 May 2017 3 min read
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