We had a request to get something printing on our 3D printer as a demonstration for an event a few weeks back, and separately had a request to print a lamp shade for another project. I'd been wanting to print the amazingly detailed 3D moon available on Thingiverse [https://www.

I've had an idea for a while now about building an internet connected photo printer that automatically prints photos for me at home as a when I take them on my phone. I had originally thought about getting hold of a Polaroid Zip [http://www.polaroid.com/zip-instant] that would

A few years ago, I saw that you can buy these rather cool looking "Emergency Stop" buttons off the internet. It was one of those purchases you make before actually working out what you want to do with it, but at just a few quid it was hard to say

Being British, I'm not ashamed to admit that I have a (completely healthy) obsession with Tea. It's probably not too much of a surprise then that one of the first things that I decided to hook up to the internet was my Kettle. Using some off the shelf parts, a

About six months ago I was able to change my role at the company that I work for. Whilst still being a software developer, I'm very lucky to now be working on something that I've been interested in for a long time. I'm now a developer for the Open Source

The Monty Hall problem has annoyed me for a while. Not that I didn't understand it, the wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) is quite extensive and explains it quite nicely, the problem is that I could never truely believe that by switching door, your chances

My house mate is currently waiting to get his delivery of his new Raspberry Pi B+ and PiGlow, and as we were discussing this I thought it would be interesting to see if I could control a PiGlow [http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/piglow] using Node-Red [http://nodered.org/]. Installing

A while back, I purchased a Pimoroni Pibow [http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow-raspberry-pi-case] case for my raspberry pi as well as a Piglow [http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/piglow] and a Pihub [http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pihub] (That’s a lot of Pi!). The first thing I thought

After spending the last six months working on my Dissertation, it was nice to focus on something a little different that I could use in my day to day life. I decided that I wanted a small mood lamp that I could place on my desk, which would occasionally flash

As a distraction for my Dissertation, I thought I would make my own TV-B-Gone [https://cornfieldelectronics.com/tvbgone/tvbg.home.php]. The TV-B-Gone is a nifty little device which acts as a universal off switch for most popular Televisions and is actually pretty simple to make, alternatively you can buy

One project that has taken up a large portion of my time recently has been my energy monitor project. This setup is quite common and I was able to put the scripts together with relative ease thanks to all the people who have done it before me. Here is my

While I have been working on the GPS car tracker project, I encountered a lot of problems with Downloading a script to the device and making it run correctly. There is a lot of documentation out there, but you have to read a lot just to understand EXACTLY how to