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Bristol: Mini Maker Faire

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in General Update, Out and About, Raspberry Pi

The Game of Life

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in Game, General Update, Raspberry Pi, wiringPi | Tagged amy mather, GPIO, john conway, life, WiringPi

The Raspberry Jamboree

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in General Update, Raspberry Pi, wiringPi | Tagged alan o'donohoe, jamboree, manchester, pi jam

Handles or real names?

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in General Update | Tagged alias, embarrassment, handle, profile, real name

Raspberry Jamboree

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in General Update, Raspberry Pi, wiringPi | Tagged jamboree, manchester, WiringPi

They’re Chickens!

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in Cooking, General Update | Tagged chickens, eggs, food, yum yum

4D Systems Intelligent Displays and the Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in General Update, Raspberry Pi | Tagged 4d systems, display, lcd, touchscreen

CESIL controlled Xmas tree on the Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in BASIC, Game, General Update, Raspberry Pi | Tagged BASIC, cesil, interpreter, tree, virtual, xmas

The Raspberry Ladder Board – Part 2

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in BASIC, General Update, Raspberry Pi, wiringPi | Tagged BASIC, c, GPIO, raspberry ladder, WiringPi

A visit to The National Museum of Computing

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Gordon

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 →

Posted in General Update, Out and About | Tagged bletchley park, computing, museum, tnmoc

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