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Visiting the Salton Sea
I got in the car, and did a 375 mile round trip to the Salton Sea and back! To break the monotony of being in the same place since March, I decided to take a day trip East to the Sal...
In Travel,
Making a Zoom Panic Switch with the Adafruit Trinket M0
Recently we’ve all been spending a lot more of our time on video conference calls from home. I’m sure that, like me, you find yourself needing to mute your microphone and turn off th...
In Arduino, C, IoT, Coding,
Building a Redis Prize Draw Application with Flask or Express
I decided to build a small application that would demonstrate some features of Redis in a fun and engaging way. I quickly hit upon the idea of a prize draw web application that would...
In Python, Redis, Node.js, JavaScript, Coding,
Arduino Coding: Traffic Lights
I’ve written several articles before using Low Voltage Labs Traffic Light LEDs for Raspberry Pi, but never tried this with Arduino before. A little while back I noticed that they als...
In Arduino, IoT, Coding, C,
Making a Game with a Raspberry Pi, LED Arcade Button, Buzzer and Python
This is a project I’d wanted to do for a while, and finally got motivation and time to make headway with! As the current social distancing measures have made in person Meetups imposs...
In Raspberry Pi, Python, Technology, Coding,
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,
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, Coding,
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, Coding,
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,
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,
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Wifi Setup with the Raspberry Pi Pico W
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Synchronised Counting with Redis and a Seven Segment Display
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Making a Bus Stop API with Cloudflare Workers
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Building a Task Tracker with Arduino and LED Arcade Buttons
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A Look at Server Sent Events
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