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Tag Archives: RaspberryPi
Interfacing Scratch and Python
Hello to Jason Isaacs is the new ‘hello world’. I decided it might be cool to knock up a simple Scratch interface for the MonkMakes Robot Rover – a bit like the block coding game I made for Year 1 … Continue reading
MonkMakes RasPi Robot Rover Kit review
If you want to cut to the chase, at about 22 minutes in the robot starts moving – much to the surprise of my dog Ellie. I really liked the Monk Makes RFID Clever Card Kit, so I was delighted … Continue reading
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Tagged MonkMakes, Python, RaspberryPi, review, robot, robotics
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Simple Scratch intruder alarm
Here’s a really simple Raspberry Pi project I’m going to try in my Year 6 Code Club. They’ve used Scratch before but never done any physical computing. Some of them have unused Raspberry Pis at home and this might inspire … Continue reading
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Tagged CodeClub, physicalcomputing, RaspberryPi, scratch
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More adventures in thermal printing
I’ve been rediscovering my old Sparkfun serial thermal till roll printer, the one I used for my Little Box of Poems, a connected IoT printer, printing from the BBC micro:bit and other projects. These printers are great fun and can … Continue reading
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Tagged printer, Python, RaspberryPi, thermal, thermal printer
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Coastal webcam with weather and tide data
Following on from my Raspberry Pi e-Ink display tide time project, I’ve made a web cam that will tweet photos overlaid with weather and tide information for any UK coastal place. It uses the official Raspberry Pi camera module. Like the InkypHAT … Continue reading
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Tagged coast, Python, RaspberryPi, seaside, tides, weather, webcam
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