For the past month or so I’ve been working on a weather display that uses the amazing Galactic Unicorn LED Matrix from the Pirates at Pimoroni. This board has a Raspberry Pi Pico W onboard on the back along with a speaker, several user-controllable buttons,...
A few years ago, I found a plugin developed by Amazon that allowed me to offer a free (to the end user) audio version of all my posts. This worked well and only cost me a few pennies a month to run through their services....
This is just a quick post to announce that you can now follow my site/blog directly on Mastodon! @talktech is now a valid user! I could also follow people here! However, I do need to fix my profile image as that’s my old logo!
Since leaving Twitter behind and moving over to Fosstodon.org (A Mastodon service), one of the fun things I missed was creating Word Clouds of my most used words. I wanted to be able to do the same to my data on Mastodon. A few months...
I decided to give ChatGPT a test and asked it to write an article on installing Thony on a Windows 11 PC. Here is the result – everything below comes from ChatGPT directly Chat GPT Thonny is a Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically...
Due to the current shortage of Raspberry Pi’s around the globe, OKdo (https://www.okdo.com/) has started to invest in another Single Board Computer (SBC) called the Rock Pi. This SBC contains a very similar layout to the Raspberry Pi 3 but has the speed and power...
This week, Oppo opened up beta signups for the first public beta of Oppo Color OS 13. This new version is based on Android 13. However, as the UK-based fans were left out of the list of places that can sign in, I needed to...
So, you have managed to get your hands on a brand new Raspberry Pi, Micro SD card, power supply, and all the other goodies to start your journey into the Microcomputer world, your fingers itching to get started with Scratch, Python or setup a computer...
As has been the case with other technology the past year or so, the Raspberry Pi is now almost fully out of stock around the world. So those who are looking for one need to check each and every stockist several times a day to...
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released a new version of the Raspberry Pi Imager. This tool, which works on Windows, Linux, and Apple, is a free and simple tool that creates Raspberry Pi Micro SD cards. When it was first released, it allowed you to...
