Category Archives: computers

Microbit wireless data logger with printout

Posted on December 20, 2016 by blogmywiki

This project uses 2 microbits – one attached to a thermal till-roll printer as before. This time there’s a second microbit which can be battery-powered and put on a car, parachute, dog, whatever takes your fancy. Every 10 seconds it … Continue reading →

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Connecting a thermal printer to a BBC microbit

Posted on December 18, 2016 by blogmywiki

  UPDATE – I have tidied up the code a lot and put a demo program on Github for you to enjoy – prints out a demo page like the one below: I have a Sparkfun thermal till-roll printer which … Continue reading →

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Pongo: wireless microbit Python pong

Posted on December 15, 2016 by blogmywiki

UPDATE: this project’s code is now on Github. I love the wireless capabilities of Python on the BBC microbit and I’ve been using it with some success in my Year 8 classes. I thought I’d have a go at writing … Continue reading →

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Updated SenseHAT weather station

Posted on November 20, 2016 by blogmywiki

Still pondering how best to improve my simple Raspberry Pi SenseHAT weather station, but I thought I’d share some improvements. The code now keeps track of highs and lows over the period it’s been logging and displays them on the … Continue reading →

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Simple Raspberry Pi weather station

Posted on November 6, 2016 by blogmywiki

Chart showing the weather in my lounge overnight! Can you spot when the central heating came on? Also note the correlation between temperature and humidity. Numbers refer to blocks of 5 minutes. I previously blogged about some very simple Python … Continue reading →

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