Monthly Archives: December 2015

Spirit level for SenseHAT

I just got myself an early Christmas present – a SenseHAT for the RaspberryPi. This is the same gizmo Tim Peake will be using on the ISS to run AstroPi experiments designed by school children, so I have the added … Continue reading

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Is the BBC Microbit project fatally damaged?

In September 2015 I was very excited to be starting a job teaching KS3 Computing and ICT at the time when the BBC Microbit was being given, free of charge, to every Year 7 child in the country – or … Continue reading

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