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12 December 2016 Stewart

Birmingham Christmas Market 2016

Video and photos from our visit to the Birmingham Christmas Market in 2016.

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9 November 2016 Stewart

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

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26 October 2016 Stewart

Wizard of Oz Costume – Wearable electronics with Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero

I decided to create a Wizard of Oz costume for Halloween this year. As you probably know The Wizard of

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23 October 2016 Stewart

Electronics and Raspberry Pi Halloween Projects

These are some of the Halloween Projects I’ve created. Haunted House A scary haunted house, using a Raspberry Pi, home

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23 October 2016 Stewart

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,

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ComputersGeneralLinux
10 October 2016 Stewart

Restore dual boot with Ubuntu when Windows 10 update overrides the UEFI settings

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

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3 October 2016 Stewart

PyconUK 2016 – Sending secret messages with a micro:bit

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

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1 October 2016 Stewart

Pi-Top Raspberry Pi laptop computer

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

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27 May 2016 Stewart

Visit to Sony Raspberry Pi Factory Wales

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

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8 May 2016 Stewart

Simple RFID using Python3 on a Raspberry Pi 2 – RC522 SPI RFID module

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

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