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Can you do the Kettle Run in less than 12 parsecs?

Posted on February 15, 2016 by blogmywiki

Here’s another Python game for the BBC MicroBit that’s very easy for pupils to edit and improve. The idea is that you navigate your ship through a canyon – or cave system or mountains. You can rotate your MicroBit through … Continue reading →

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Fake anaglyph 3D photos in GIMP

Posted on January 9, 2016 by blogmywiki

It’s quite easy to make fake 3D anaglyph images in Photoshop, the kinds of images you view with red-blue 3D glasses. Here’s a guide for example, and here’s an image I made years ago with text in Photoshop: But can … Continue reading →

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What I Did in the Summer Holidays

Posted on August 31, 2015 by blogmywiki

Remember Get Lost? Probably not. It was a great Alan Plater 1981 series on ITV (predating The Beiderbecke Affair) about a couple of school teachers who investigate people vanishing. One of the characters was an English teacher and she always … Continue reading →

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Bitmap fonts

Posted on August 25, 2015 by blogmywiki

I used to love making fonts – even back in the 1980s I made bitmap fonts for the ZX Spectrum. This is a homage to the font I made for my mid-80s A-Level Computer Science project, which did on-screen graphics … Continue reading →

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Windbreaks

Posted on August 19, 2015 by blogmywiki

Windbreak slideshow – click on arrows either side of image to view the set. The British seem to love windbreaks. I got a bit obsessed about them yesterday, on that rare thing: a windless, hot summer day on the beach … Continue reading →

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