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Raspberry Pi Motion Triggered Halloween Pumpkin Jack-O’-Lantern

My 8 year old son has now completed another Raspberry Pi project. This project is a Halloween Pumpkin, or jack-o’-lantern,

As a Linux user it’s now very rare that I run Windows on my home computer, but when I do

Another year and another Pycon UK. For 2016 the UK’s community Python Conference was held in Cardiff, Wales. It’s also

During my visit to the Raspberry Pi factory arranged by RS I also entered into a competition to win a

I’ve recently been to visit the Sony UK factory where the Raspberry Pi is made. This was made possible thanks

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and NFC (Near Field Communication) provide the ability for devices to talk to each other by

The BBC micro:bit includes an accelerometer which allows you to track the movement of the micro:bit. This means that it

One of the things I’ve been doing with the micro:bit is to have it relay messages to a connected host

I’ve been playing around with a BBC Micro:Bit for the last few days. You can see my first adventures in

The BBC Micro:Bit will be going out to school children in the UK during 2016. In the meantime I have