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...
Thank you for visiting! If you are a regular visitor to my site, or if you are coming from a search engine looking for linked content, then you may find it missing for now. I have moved the site to be hosted on a Raspberry...
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...
Over the past few days I have been converting my “Speedtest-cron” code to work on the PaPiRus from PiSupply. Whilst going over the code, I decided to start a new Git Repository and rename this version to “PaPiRus Netapp”. So without further ado, I bring...
Speedtest & Scan4Pi.py If you follow my blog, or Twitter feed – you will know I love my current ePaper Hat for my Raspberry Pi. You will also know that I have created a tool that will allow you to check your internet speeds and...
Do you have many Raspberry Pi’s on your network, with DHCP (dynamic IP addresses)? If so – then I have a script for you! I have put together a python script that will scan your network for Raspberry Pi’s and then try and connect to...
I have installed Windows 3.1 onto my Android device. I have used a DOS emulator called (unimaginatively) “aDosBox”. This lets you run any DOS applications on your phone and is a free application from the Android Market Place (QR Code at the end) After installing...
