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Rediscovering Flotilla
Back in 2015 I backed Pimoroni’s Flotilla modular physical computing devices on Kickstarter and got an early set. I had some fun exploring it, but the software and support materials weren”t quite...
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Flotilla-controlled Raspberry Pi internet radio
As you may know, I love making different internet radios with Raspberry Pis! This week I’ve been rediscovering the Pimoroni Flotilla modular physical computing devices which I backed on Kickstarter a...
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Raspberry Pi Freeview PVR and TV streamer
I’ve had a cheap USB SDR stick sitting in my Amazon basket for… about 2 years. I finally got round to buying the thing. What is an SDR? It’s a Software Defined Radio – a radio tuner that allows you to...
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More adventures in thermal printing
I’ve been rediscovering my old Sparkfun serial thermal till roll printer, the one I used for my Little Box of Poems, a connected IoT printer, printing from the BBC micro:bit and other projects. These...
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Simple Scratch intruder alarm
Here’s a really simple Raspberry Pi project I’m going to try in my Year 6 Code Club. They’ve used Scratch before but never done any physical computing. Some of them have unused Raspberry Pis at home...
View ArticleMonkMakes RasPi Robot Rover Kit review
If you want to cut to the chase, at about 22 minutes in the robot starts moving – much to the surprise of my dog Ellie. I really liked the Monk Makes RFID Clever Card Kit, so I was delighted when they...
View ArticleSnow Leopard Mac won’t boot – startup disk full
or: what to do when your son tells you 10 minutes before he needs to go to school that the old family iMac is broken and he can’t get his work off that needs handing in like right now. Symptom: …...
View ArticleDistraction-free writing OS
Here’s an idea for a cheap alternative to expensive ‘distraction-free’ word processors like the Freewrite (much as I love the idea of the Freewrite – I just cannot afford one.) A Linux-based OS on a...
View ArticleA tiny screen for a Raspberry Pi
I have a few old Raspberry Pis lying around, including a Model B Rev 1 running Raspberry Pi OS Buster lite. I use it to serve up my simple MUD game. It has no wi-fi so it’s connected by ethernet …...
View ArticleWhy did 1973 matter to Classic Mac OS?
So I was clearing off an old 350MHz graphite Apple Macintosh G4 Server which had OS 10.4.9 on it, and decided to put Mac OS 9.2 on it for the lolz. This was a mistake, as I had been intending …...
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