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Rendering Images on the Pimoroni Pico Display

How to render your own images on the Pimoroni Pico Display Pack and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Reviving an old VCD dub with python

We have children in the family learning both English and Cantonese simultaneously, a great way to help support this will be to show them films that they will love in their mother tongue, and what better films to show children but films by Studio Ghibli? But here's the problem: Studio

Moonrise Light

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 for a

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Hatching a Dragon Egg

Building an interactive glowing dragon egg prop.

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IoTrees

This year, I wanted to build a connected Christmas Ornament for each of my family members. The aim was to build a light that looked nice, but also allowed us to feel connected even if we weren't together..

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Internet Connected Photo Printer - Part 1: Modding the SP-2

Modifying a Fujifilm Instax SP-2 Printer so that it can be powered on and off by a Raspberry Pi.

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Internet Connected Photo Printer - InstaxAPI

A new Python API and Command line tool that lets you print photos from your computer, using the Fujifilm Instax SP-2

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E Ink Status Display

In this post, I built a physical status display using a Pimoroni Inky pHAT, MQTT, Python and Javascript

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Building a Twitter Connected Cuckoo Clock... Really

In this post, I take a minimalistic Cuckoo clock and for better or for worse connect it to the internet.

Internet Connected Photo Printer - Introduction

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 that would print Instant photos. However from

MQTT enabled Emergency Button

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

Building an IoT device (Internet of Tea)

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

Monitoring houseplants with MQTT and the ESP8266

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 in python

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

Using the PiGlow with Node-Red

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 using Node-Red. Installing the PiGlow node module sudo npm install piglow This

Framing the Raspberry Pi

A while back, I purchased a Pimoroni Pibow case for my raspberry pi as well as a Piglow and a Pihub (That’s a lot of Pi!). The first thing I thought was how awesome it all looked, especially the raspberry pi in it’s rainbow acrylic enclosure. The only

Notification Moodlamp

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

Sonic TV-B-Gone Screwdriver

As a distraction for my Dissertation, I thought I would make my own TV-B-Gone. 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 them assembled or in kits from online.

Measuring Energy Usage with the CurrentCost EnviR

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

How to Create and Download a Python script to a GM862-GPS

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