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6 April 2015 Stewart

HDMI Pi – Raspberry Pi screen – upgrade to Raspberry Pi 2 / B+

I bought a HDMI Pi, Raspberry Pi screen through the kickstarter project. When the Kickstarter was run then there were

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16 March 2015 Stewart

Day out at the Big Bang Fair at the NEC – including #Error404

The Big Bang fair is a free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) event aimed at children aged from 7

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26 February 2015 Stewart

Raspberry Pi robot Android app

I created a web front end for my Raspberry Pi based robot, which works well on a desktop PC, but

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5 February 2015 Stewart

Raspberry Pi – Heart beat – 8×8 LED display with I2C BackPack from AdaFruit

This is based on the AdaFruit 8×8 Bicolor LED display with I2C BackPack. It’s connected to a Raspberry Pi 2,

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4 February 2015 Stewart

Raspberry Pi 2 – New 1GB quad-core $35 computer

The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer designed to provide a platform for children to learn computer programming. The Raspberry

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26 January 2015 Stewart

Adding a home disk to virtualbox virtual machine – Ubuntu VM

Introduction Recently I ran out of space when using a Virtualbox virtual machine. Normally I use a dynamic disk that

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22 January 2015 Stewart

Energenie infrared socket and Raspberry Pi infrared

I have already posted about the Energenie wireless remote control sockets. I’ve now had chance to look through one of

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20 January 2015 Stewart

Git – Version Control that’s addictive

Git is a version control system. A way of keeping regular backups of files which is particularly useful for creating

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5 January 2015 Stewart

Changing from RaspBMC to OSMC – static IP address and remote connection

I’ve been running XBMC using RaspBMC on a Raspberry Pi for some time. I’ve digitised my music and videos and

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10 December 2014 Stewart

Installing a MyPiFi LCD onto a Raspberry Pi in a Pimoroni Pibow case

Having already done some work with LCD displays on the Arduino I had been looking for a project to use

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