Starting our Easter holiday coding sessions simple, using a Raspberry Pi Pico to flash an LED using MicroPython via Thonny on a RPi4 Started with a bit of a stumbling block as wrongly assumed the breadboard ports on the Pimoroni Pico explorer ran horizontal but they actually run vertically! Once Continue Reading
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Oops it fell into my shopping cart by accident…
Obviously an educational resource for the Easter holidays!!
Can’t update your Raspberry Pi? Try this…
I had a few spare minutes so decided to check on the update status of my Raspberry Pi’s. I found updates have stalled due to a connection issue to archive-bm.raspbian.org sure enough I could not ping by name, after checking I had outbound connectivity. To get round this, I added Continue Reading
Sending my daughter to Mars…
I’m pretty sure that’s an idea most parents have during difficult times with their kids (homeschooling I’m looking at you!) However on this occasion it’s a good thing, I actually sent my daughter to Mars, but forgot, oops. Obviously I didn’t send her in person, but a few years ago Continue Reading
Micro:Bit v2 – so close, yet so far…
After a bit of a delay, the 2nd generation of the BBC Micro:bit has been delivered. Unfortunately as it’s a Christmas present for my daughter I can’t play with it too much, but I did take a quick opportunity to open the box and take a few pics of each Continue Reading
IoT free-tier Revolution
Warning: Ranty Post ahead If any manufacturers of IoT hardware are reading this, please STOP offering a free tier for your products and services, as unless you can maintain that free tier for the lifetime of the product it will be your undoing. I’m not talking about free trial periods Continue Reading
Terraform Adventures
As you probably know there are hundreds of different posts about building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, but this details some of my experience when coupled with AWS. The main aim of this demonstration is to stand up a single AWS EC2 instance, ready for logging into on its public Continue Reading
RPi4 booting from NVMe (over USB)
It just so happened that recently the USB booting feature for the RPi4 coming out of Beta and Amazon Prime day coincided around the same time. I took this as a sign to beef up my main RPi daily machine with some external storage which would be faster and also Continue Reading
The Gorilla who lost its groove
…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