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Tooling Tuesday - Windows Serial Checker...from Linux!

Need to find out your Windows serial key....but using a Linux distro? Read on!

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Tooling Tuesday - #pounderland special

Take apart a Poundland amplifier / speaker...it only costs a quid...honest!

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Tooling Tuesday - easygui

Fancy making an easy to use GUI with Python? Well give easygui a try!

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Tooling Tuesday - Inputs

Need to detect gamepad input in your Python project? Well take a look at this library which offers just what you need!

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Tuesday Tooling - Google Image Search With Python

Learn how to search for images on Google, from Python!

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Tooling Tuesday - Python3 GeoPy

So you want to find something on a map, query a location and use the data in Python 3? I got your back! So what is it? GeoPy.... "makes it easy for

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Tooling Tuesday - Python3 Web Server

Something simple, yet so handy! A Python 3 web server ready to serve content!

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Tooling Tuesday - Wago!

Safe, reliable connectors for all manner of projects...Oh and they are cheap!

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Tooling Tuesday - Easy micro:bit Serial Connection

I've covered serial connections quite a lot recently, from micro:bit to laptop, Raspberry Pi, Adafruit Gemma M0. But each time I use my boiler plate serial listener code. It's clunky but it

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Tuesday Tooling - USB Soldering Iron

This is the long awaited review of something that I take for granted...soldering irons. But this one is a little different, it runs from USB power! So what is it? A USB

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Tuesday Tooling - Create GUIs for BASH Scripts

This week a handy GUI creation tool for your BASH scripts ![] So what is it? Zenity is a tool that wraps BASH scripts and terminal commands in a lovely graphical user interface. So

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Tuesday Tooling - Python Webbrowser

This week a handy Python library that enables us to open a web browser! So what is it? Webbrowser is a Pythonic way to open a web browser on any operating system. Can't

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Tuesday Tooling: Teeny Tiny ATtiny85

A hardware themed Tuesday Tooling this week! So what is it? A tiny microcontroller that is compatible with the Arduino IDE. It comes in many different forms, some connect via micro USB, some

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Tuesday Tooling: Animated GIFs and Code Snippets FTW

Tuesday tooling is back! Sorry for the short break! Scenario 1: Everyone loves a cool animated GIF, and you need to record the steps taken to perform a certain task or action and

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Tuesday Tooling: Making Bluetooth Connections From The Terminal

Yes this is the late edition of Tuesday Tooling...I've been on holiday Scenario: You're connected to your Raspberry Pi / Pocket Chip / Single Board Computer via a terminal session, but you would really

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Tuesday Tooling: Pastebinit

This week's Tuesday Tooling is a terminal application that can save you time and sanity by sending text to a pastebin. So what is it called? Pastebinit Where can I find it? It

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Tuesday Tooling: Record / Replay Keystrokes With Python

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

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Tuesday Tooling: MkDocs

Another Tuesday Tooling blog post, and this week a quick look at a handy tool to create great looking documentation, and best of all it uses Python! tl;dr MkDocs is a great

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Tuesday Tooling: Custom Python Spinners

Tooling Tuesday is a new series of short, to the point blog posts that highlight a fun and useful tool for developers, coders, makers, hackers and of course system administrators. For the first

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