…would make a brilliant title for a children’s book, unfortunately this is about my experience with Ubuntu 20.10 Desktop on the Raspberry Pi 4. I had a few spare minutes to try out the latest release of Ubuntu, in fact a few minutes was all I needed as the flash Continue Reading
SnowPi RGB
A while ago, a Kickstarter project caught my eye, SnowPi RGB, an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi and Micro:Bit. The Snowman board is kitted out with 12 neopixels for colour changing goodness, and thought it would be a good project to try with my daughter now she is getting Continue Reading
Why I had to build a Windows PC in 2020
Our home windows laptop died over a year ago, and was replaced by a Chromebook, which has been great and fulfilled most needs, but for those it couldn’t, I had a Windows based laptop for work. I handed that back a few months ago, and have been using a Raspberry Continue Reading
Micro:bit v2
I’ve raved about the BBC micro:bit in past posts, and today I learn there will be a new 2020 version released in November. This new versions increases the storage, RAM and CPU, as well as adds a microphone and speaker. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this Continue Reading
Migrating from IFTTT to Home Assistant
So the time has come, IFTTT, the IF This Then (do) That cloud based automation service, has decided to try and further monetise by charging customers for a pro account if they want more than a basic offering, or more than 3 automations, known as applets. I used IFTTT for Continue Reading