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24 November 2018 Stewart

Model Railway – designing a G-Scale building for an outdoor model railway in the garden – part 1

This is my first attempt at creating a proper scale model for 3D printing. In this case I am creating

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ComputersProgrammingRaspberryPi
15 October 2018 Stewart

JLL Piano – Raspberry Pi Music Clip player

This project is called the JLL piano. This is a school project that my daughter created for her music homework.

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15 October 2018 Stewart

Programming games with Pygame Zero

Recently I’ve been programming some games using Pygame Zero. Pygame Zero is combination of libraries and other code that interfaces

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28 August 2018 Stewart

Raspberry Pi or Arduino NeoPixels (Smart RGB LEDs with ws281x)

I’ve recently been having fun with some NeoPixels on the Raspberry Pi. NeoPixel is the name that Adafruit uses to

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ComputersGeneralLinuxRaspberryPi
27 March 2018 Stewart

Updated Linux and Raspberry Pi Tutorials

One of the things about creating a web site is having to keep it up-to-date as changes happen. In the

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3 March 2018 Stewart

Raspberry Pi 6th Birthday – Birmingham Raspberry Jam 2018

Today is the weekend of the Raspberry Pi 6th Birthday. In the past the birthday has been celebrated with a

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1 March 2018 Stewart

World Book Day – Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni InkyPHat Badge

Update Since creating this project there are some new ePaper style ID badges based around microcontrollers rather than the Raspberry

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ChildrenComputersGeneralLinuxProgrammingSTEM
15 February 2018 Stewart

ESA European Astro Pi Project – Mission Zero – Code that ran on the International Space Station

The ESA European Astro Pi Project – “Mission Zero”, involved school children creating code that actually ran on the International

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ComputersGeneralLinuxProgramming
24 January 2018 Stewart

OMSCS Studying online – MSc in Computer Science with Georgia Tech

I’ve recently completed an online Master degree with Georgia Tech. This has been a huge commitment in terms of time,

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ComputersGeneralLinuxProgramming
13 January 2018 Stewart

The power of open source – Creating a GUI with Python and guizero

This isn’t going to be a guide about how to program a GUI (graphical user interfaces) using guizero (hopefully I’ll

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