Pimoroni’s Inky Impression is a 5.7-inch 7 colour e-ink screen. As it is an e-ink screen, it is very low power. It is also capable of maintaining an image without power. It connects to any 40-pin Raspberry Pi microcomputer. I have used it with a...
Starling bank is what is commonly referred to as a challenger bank. They do not have branches on the high street. You will only find them online and on your portable devices. To get an account, you follow a signup process using their app on...
Since I first got cable broadband, I’ve been interested in testing the speed I am getting. Over the years this has gotten easier with tools like speedtest.net. The only issue with Speedtest.net was that it was designed for use in a browser. However – the...
During Ipswich Makerspace’s Open day on the 28th September, part of my display consisted of a Weather Dashboard, on a Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4. For this display, I used some preexisting code that I modified to work on the higher density of the screen. I used...
My Ipswich Maker space display contains three elements. The first is small weather display, the second is an LED matrix showing both the time and temperature in the room. The third is reading information from the cloud that counts the number of mobile phones in...
During Pimoroni’s recent 7th birthday, I won a £50 gift voucher to spend on their site. After a lot of thought and wonder, I finally opted for the Pimoroni Mote (shown above). This is a full kit that contains 4 strips of 14 RGB LED...
Part 1 This year on the 28th September, the Ipswich Makerspace is holding a free open day. This is a chance for people in Suffolk, North Essex and surrounding areas to come and find out what being a member offers. There are going to be...
I have started working on a new version of my Network Appliance. This will give you a tool to test various aspects of your Home/Business network. Written in Python3 and using the KIVY interface. The appliance will be simple to use and have powerful features.
I have recently purchased 4 Veho Kasa Bluetooth lights. These lights are RGBWW, meaning as well as having LED’s inside that can do all the colours you would like, they have 2 separate white LEDs, one that is bright white and one that is a...
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV designed and produced an excellent digital LED kit for micro board computers like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino called the RasPiO InsPiRing. This controller and LED combination allows you to learn how to control digital LED’s like the popular “NeoPixel”. This...
