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Converting an 80s Peugeot Bicycle to Single Speed
I grew up in Nottingham, England in the 1980s-90s. At the time this was the home of the Raleigh bicycles HQ and factory, so almost everyone rode a Raleigh. They were solid bikes, an...
In Cycling, Hobbies, May 25, 2020
Raspberry Pi Coding in Swift: Traffic Lights
As long time readers know, I’ve written a series of articles each describing how to get up and running with controlling the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins using different programming language...
In Raspberry Pi, Technology, IoT, Swift, Apr 15, 2020
Raspberry Pi Coding with Node Red: Traffic Lights
Node RED is a tool that has interested me for some time - specifically when used on the Raspberry Pi to control or receive input from hardware devices. As part of my series of posts ...
In Raspberry Pi, IoT, JavaScript, Node.js, Node RED, Apr 11, 2020
Radio Controlled Car and Coffee Fun
I’ve long been interested in radio controlled cars, and have built and raced them to quite a high level several times before although not recently. Today I decided to take one out on...
In Radio Control, Video, Hobbies, Mar 22, 2020
Raspberry Pi Coolest Projects USA 2020
Today I traveled from San Diego to the Discovery Cube in Santa Ana, California to check out this year’s Raspberry Pi Coolest Projects USA event. This is a one day Raspberry Pi Founda...
In Raspberry Pi, Mar 07, 2020
Using a Break Beam Sensor with Python and Raspberry Pi
Let’s take a look at how to use a break beam sensor in a Python script on a Raspberry Pi! I’ve had a few of these kicking around for a while now, and finally got around to unboxing o...
In Raspberry Pi, Python, IoT, Feb 23, 2020
Controlling Real World Objects with Raspberry Pi and Node.js
Here in San Diego, we have a monthly meetup called Fundamental JS. This is part of the wider San Diego JS family of meetups and is a favorite of mine because it focusses on core Java...
In Raspberry Pi, Node.js, IoT, Feb 16, 2020
Exploring JavaScript Generators with Redis Sets
Back in October 2019, I attended the San Diego JS “Fundamental JS” meetup where one of the talks was about generator functions. After the talk I decided to see if I could use a gener...
In JavaScript, Node.js, Redis, Jan 21, 2020
Writing Google Cloud Functions in Go
Let’s try building and deploying a Google Cloud Function using Go! Google Cloud recently added the Go language to its list of runtimes for the Cloud Functions serverless compute plat...
In Cloud, GCP, Go, Serverless, Jan 26, 2019
Testing Zesty.io's Templating Engine using... Zesty.io!
Parsley is a major component of the Zesty.io Content Management platform. It is a server side templating engine which can be used to inject dynamic content into web pages or many othe...
In Node.js, JavaScript, CMS, Testing, Jan 05, 2019
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