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
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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
I’ve been doing some work recently with 4D Systems who’re based in Australia and who design some really cool LCD and oLED touchscreen display modules. The displays themselves have an on-board graphics processor that is designed to take the load … Continue reading
CESIL? What on earth is that, I hear you cry! Or maybe some of you are recoiling back in horror at the name of the 1970’s educational programming language stirring up bad memories… Or you’ve read this months MagPi magazine … Continue reading
Last month I wrote about the Raspberry Ladder Board and it appeared in the MagPi magazine too! This month I’ll finish it off with a full board description and some more software. (And if you don’t have one yet, then … Continue reading
Last weekend (Saturday the 2nd to be precise!) I visited The National Museum of Computing (aka TNMoC) which is based in the grounds of Bletchley Park. This was my 2nd visit and I was especially interested in seeing the newly … Continue reading
On the evening of Saturday the 24th of November, 2012 the lower part of Buckfastleigh flooded. Both the Mardle river and Dean burns were full to overflowing – with some rather serious consequences. I originally took a few dozen photos … Continue reading
At long last (well only 10 months or so!) I’ve released my BASIC to the world! RTB is a modern BASIC in that you don’t need line numbers and it supports nice looping constructs like while/until with named functions and … Continue reading
John Jay based in Georgia, USA is a retired engineer who’s “gotten the PI bug” and designed some new IO boards for the Raspberry Pi. He’s currently selling them via eBay and I have some here to play with! (I … Continue reading