Really cool Lego robots

Following from the post on Lego marble runs, here you will find a some videos of really cool #Lego #robots (and some more marble runs). +1 geek experience...

Shakespearean Insult Generator

Introducing the Shakespearean Insult Generator - thou puking bat-fowling puttock! Press the button, insult your friends. This insult generator...

What time is it (as a hexadecimal background colour)?

A short program that displays the current time as a hexadecimal background colour.  Source code is below, or you can download the executable for...

A feast of awesome Lego train sets

+1 geek experience point for all the contributors Some Arduino controlled train sets Space Lego train given suitable sci-fi editing Longest...

Eclipse 2015

Some photos of today's eclipse taken from The Grammar School at Leeds by Ryan. ...

Google for ISBN-13 numbers

An ISBN number is a unique identification number for commercial books.  The listing below is for an ISBN-13 validation program in BBC BASIC.  If...

Reading a text file into a string byte by byte

A BBC BASIC demo showing byte-by-byte input from a file. The following demo takes a single text file as input and reads it into a single string variable....

Castle Grim

Back in the early nineties, and long before I had a home computer to entertain me, I used to follow the adventures of Sir Eric the Unready and his adventures...

Random Movie Titles

Do you suffer from writer's block?  Need to get a new block-buster written in a hurry?  Let the Random Movie Title Generator help you... Let...

A whole load of binary search videos

Following yesterday's post on the linear search, I thought it would prudent to post a whole load of videos on the binary search (the linear search's big...

A whole load of linear search algorithm videos

The linear search: a simple algorithm for searching for something.  It is what you do when you are searching for a matching sock in your sock drawer....

Kids Code with SHAPES (part two)

Last time I posted some SHAPES code written by year 7 children.  Today I am posting some code written by year 6 children.  The one major difference...