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Element 14 BOO! Pi Costume Contest

Around Halloween 2016 Element 14 ran a Costume Competition for wearable tech projects. Boo! Pi Costume Contest I was already

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

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

Click the image above for the slides for the Disco Light talk at the Pi Birthday 2016. Worksheet for Raspberry

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

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

The Raspberry Pi foundation has made a new Raspberry Pi computer called the PiZero. It’s a smaller version of the

I recently spent a day at the Malvern Festival of Innovation – introducing pupils to physical computing and computer programming.