Category Archives: computers

Little Box of Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2014 by blogmywiki

A good while ago, I made The Little Box of Poems. This is a box that prints a random poem every time you push a big red button. Inside is an Arduino microcontroller and a thermal till roll printer, and … Continue reading →

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Can’t afford a Hemingwrite? I have an idea…

Posted on December 12, 2014 by blogmywiki

I LOVE the idea of the Hemingwrite. It’s like a portable typewriter that allows you to write distraction-free whilst still saving your work electronically and backing it up online. It has a proper keyboard and – crucially – an eInk … Continue reading →

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The Imitation Game vs Enigma

Posted on December 1, 2014 by blogmywiki

Bit late to this but finally saw The Imitation Game this weekend. Really rather disappointed – I think Enigma (also about breaking the same cipher in Bletchley Park in WW2) is the better film. I just wasn’t convinced by the … Continue reading →

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Little Box of Haiku

Posted on November 19, 2014 by blogmywiki

Following on from my Little Box of Poems – which printed a random poem on till-roll (and which also inspired Carrie Anne Philbin’s Little Box of Geek) – I present: The Little Box of Haiku. It’s made from a RaspberryPi … Continue reading →

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Displayotron3000 Pi Radio

Posted on November 9, 2014 by blogmywiki

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 2015: The BBC has changed the way it streams network radio – see here for details. And Fip has moved to http://audio.scdn.arkena.com/11016/fip-midfi128.mp3 In the summertime I built a Raspberry Pi radio that I could control via a … Continue reading →

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