I made a command line personal assistant in BASIC

I am not 100% serious about this application, however, just to amuse some students I have written a personal digital assistant app in BBC BASIC for Windows. Introducing...

Robot arms with FUZE

I recently bought a couple of Raspberry Pi FUZE computers with Robot arm kit. FUZE powered Raspberry Pi with Robot Arm kit available on Amazon right...

My Library

Are you sitting comfortably?  Good, then I will begin. Once upon a time I used to loan books to friends.  Then I would forget all about it...

Bug squashed in data logger

Ooops!  I've just spotted a bug in my Raspberry Pi Sense HAT datalogging script.  The 'time' command causes the system to crash.  This...

Four weeks with #Microsoft Band 2

I have been wearing a Microsoft Band 2 for four weeks now.  This post is a tour of the features I have been using. You can get a good deal on microsoft...

Programming in the classroom using SHAPES

Thanks to Rachel Bush for producing some fabulous resources for using SHAPES in the classroom. Rachel's resources are suitable for year 5-7 programmers...

Raspberry Pi Sense HAT data logger

I have been working on a command line temperature/humidity/pressure data logger for my Raspberry Pi Sense HAT. You can get the Python code from this...

Sense HAT data logger 01

OK it is day two with my Raspberry Pi Sense HAT and here is my first attempt at a data logger program.  You can read about my first day with Sense...

Hello Sense HAT

Yesterday I bought one of the wonderful Sense HAT boards from element14.com. The Sense HAT provides an 8x8 LED maxtrix display, accelerometer, gyroscope,...

RISC OS Pi replaces my DAB Digital Radio

I have been playing with my Raspberry Pi RISC OS set-up, trying to find some 'essential' every-day apps for productivity on a cold English morning.  Here...

Music on Console for Raspberry Pi

Following on from last week's post on setting up my RISC OS Pi machine as a media center, I started to play around with the Raspbian distribution. I needed...

Playing with RISC OS for Raspberry Pi, day 3

So today my 32GB micro SD card arrived for my Raspberry Pi 2.  I used Noobs to flash it with RISC OS Pi, OpenELEC, OSMC and Raspbian. Let's ignore...

#Lego #TARDIS

It's been a long day, so no computing-related posts.  Although I have been playing around with my Raspberry Pi and building some new websites there...

Reading and writing temporary files 02

Last time I looked at two programs: one creates a temporary file and the other one reads it. The two programs here are an improvement.  They contain...