Building the Lego Creator Shuttle
I was minding my own business in the local Lidl, shopping for some breakfast items. As I turned a corner into the infamous “Middle o...
Environment Monitoring with Redis Streams, Raspberry Pi Pico W and MicroPython
The Raspberry Pi Pico W is an extremely capable microcontroller device from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The W variant has on board ...
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Building the Lego Creator Shuttle
I was minding my own business in the local Lidl, shopping for some breakfast items. As I turned a corner into the infamous “Middle of Lidl” aisle, I spotted a Lego Shuttle set that I...
In Lego, Hobbies,
MicroPython on the M5Stack Atom Matrix: A Live Streaming Series
The Atom Matrix is a tiny (24mm x 24mm x 14mm) ESP32 based device from M5Stack. For such a small thing at a nice price (around US$ 15 at the time of writing) it has a lot to offer. ...
In IoT, Coding, Python,
Completing the PiHut Maker Advent Calendar
Last year I noticed that UK Raspberry Pi reseller The Pi Hut had made a really nice looking “12 Projects of Codemas” maker advent calendar. It was a large box containing 12 smaller o...
In IoT, Coding, Raspberry Pi, Python,
What's on BBC Radio with Pimoroni Pico Display Pack 2
At home in our kitchen we have an Amazon Echo Show device that we use for a few things. When cooking, it’s handy to be able to yell out “Alexa, set timer 15 minutes” so that we can k...
In IoT, Coding, Raspberry Pi, Python,
Carbon Intensity Display With Raspberry Pi Pico and Pimoroni GFX Pack
Global warming is a thing, and we can all do our bit by reducing our carbon footprint. One way of achieving this would be to move more things that we use electricity for (cooking, ch...
In IoT, Coding, Raspberry Pi, Python,
Building the Lego Creator Land Rover Defender Set
I’ve always admired the industrial simplicity of the classic Land Rover Defender that had an amazing production run stretching from 1983 to 2016 and built on the heritage of the origi...
In Lego, Hobbies,
Flip Dot Displays with Raspberry Pi
Flip dot displays were a popular way of displaying destination information on buses and other forms of public transport. A flip dot sign is a matrix of individual dots, each having a...
In IoT, Coding, Raspberry Pi, JavaScript, Python,
Taking Pictures with Raspberry Pi and Redis
“How can you store images in Redis from a Python script?” - I was asked this by someone looking to build an IoT project that used Redis as the data store for image classification. Th...
In Redis, Raspberry Pi, Python,
Geodesic Lines with the Google Maps Geometry API
Who doesn’t like a good map? I’ve always enjoyed working with data that lends itself to mapping, and have built a few interactive things with the Google Maps API before. I’m also pr...
In JavaScript, Coding, Front End, Google Maps,
Plane Spotting with Redis, Node.js and MicroPython
I’ve always been interested to watch planes pass by, so I decided to build a plane tracking system… For this I used some existing software called dump1090 - it receives data broadcast...
In IoT, Coding, Raspberry Pi, Redis, JavaScript, Python,
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