I had a few hours to spare today while I’m in Cambridge, so I decided to pay a visit to the Center for Computing History and what an exciting place it is! (Well, for an old geek like me that … Continue reading
Category Archives: General Update
So today (30th April, 2014) marks the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language! Hurrah! The very first BASIC program: 10 LET X = (7 + 8) / 3 20 PRINT X 30 END To help celebrate this, I’ve made … Continue reading
Some time back the boffins at Pimoroni sent me a prototype of the new Pibrella board with a view to making the little piezo speaker on it make some noise… It wasn’t that loud, so I made a few suggestions … Continue reading
So as you may have read here, you might know I have a bit of a thing for baking… And so we had a little family “do” last weekend – my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary and we did an afternoon … Continue reading
So M-Shed in Bristol hosted Bristols first (mini) Maker Faire today, so a quick (well 2 hour!) trip up the A38 and M5 and myself and Rachel arrived in the morning to what initially looked like a somewhat chaotic bunch … Continue reading
One of the talks at last weeks Raspberry Jamboree was by Amy Mather – 13 years old, talking about her implementation of Conways Game of Life on the Raspberry Pi. Fantastic! For many reasons – and I think it’s great … Continue reading
Alan O’Donohoe is a man with not only a huge amount of energy, enthusiasm and full of all-round niceness (for a teacher 😉 ) but has been arranging Raspberry Jams since the early days of the Raspberry Pi. Recently he … Continue reading
There has been some discussion recently (and probably for a very long time too) about the use of a handle or alias vs using your real name on forums, blogs, social networks, chat systems and so on… Way back (20+ … Continue reading
Just a quick plug for the Raspberry Jamboree in Manchester this Saturday! Orginised by the ever energetic Alan O’Donohoe (Teacher &Jambassador) I’ll be there for the day myself – on a stand with Andrew Robinson of PiFace fame (and it … Continue reading
So, as anyone who has kept chickens will tell you, Aardman Animations Chicken Run is a documentary… Chickens escape. Or try very hard to… We’ve kept chickens before, but after a year off, decided to get some more and within … Continue reading