-
Recent articles
Recent Comments
Calendar
March 2024 M T W T F S S « Jun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Tag cloud
6502 Apple Arduino BBC BBCMicrobit books breadboardcomputer coding computing education fiction Flotilla Fridge Gizmo FridgeGizmo ICT iphone kindle LCD lenovo Linux London MakeyMakey maths Microbit MicroPython music OLED osx Pimoroni PiRadio poetry printer Python radio RaspberryPi Raspberry Pi raspbian reading recently read scratch SenseHAT teaching twitter weather writing
Author Archives: blogmywiki
A Christmas Ghost Story: The Tedious Case of Room 623
Had an idea for a story while walking the dog. I was going to abandon it, or at the very least change the narrator’s preposterous name, when I discovered that Agatha Christie wrote over a dozen stories about a man … Continue reading
Social migration
This is not intended to be another long take on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, heaven knows enough has been said about that, but a few thoughts as I mothball my Twitter account… I have long-disliked Musk. He’s not a good … Continue reading
Send the time from a watch to a BBC micro:bit
Previously I got a BBC micro:bit sending temperature data to my BangleJS watch by Bluetooth. I did this using a very simple, but deprecated, Eddystone beacon radio protocol. I thought it would be interesting to send data the other way, … Continue reading
Posted in computers, microbit
Tagged BangleJS, BangleJS2, BBCMicrobit, Microbit, watch
Leave a comment
Use a micro:bit as remote Bluetooth temperature sensor
I love my BangleJS2 watch – it’s an inexpensive smart watch with custom firmware that allows you easily to write your own apps using JavaScript. I’ve already made a couple of watch faces for it, but I was keen to … Continue reading
Posted in computers, education, ICT, microbit
Tagged BangleJS, BangleJS2, BBCMicrobit, Bluetooth, EddystoneBeacon, Espruino, Microbit, smartwatch, watch
Leave a comment
Collect and graph micro:bit data on a Raspberry Pi
Using a BBC micro:bit, an old Raspberry Pi and a surprisingly small amount of code, you can log sensor data in a simple CSV (comma separated values) text file and plot it on an interactive graph you can access from … Continue reading
Posted in microbit, Raspberry Pi
Tagged BBCMicrobit, data, datalogging, Microbit, RaspberryPi
Leave a comment