MkII Full-sized USB Socket for PiZero
Having played around with this sort of effort to fit a WiFi dongle inside the dimensions of a PiZero, I came up with idea of getting a USB socket like this and sticking it...
Author: cymplecy
Remote Control HDMI switch using PiZero, Infra Red, MQTT and Scratch
Instead of running 2 long HDMI leads to connect bedroom and kitchen TVs to my SkyQ box, I used one to a switch in an intermediate room But having to manually changeover the switch...
GPIO Hammer Header Jigs for Sale
The pirates at Pimoroni have sourced the item we have been looking for ever since the PiZero has launched – a solderless header – https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/gpio-hammer-header – for a very reasonable £2. So finally, everyone...
ScratchGPIO Map Pin
Simply broadcast Map Pin x, name to rename a sensor pinx to name Map Pin to name now in ScratchGPIO7 pic.twitter.com/wAUlVuQ4On — Simon Walters (@cymplecy) November 21, 2016
Scratch2Pi (part 2)
Previous blurb here So having got technoboy10 twitter extension.js file up and running – I went about playing with it to alter it to try and make it talk to a python program running on...
Scratch2Pi
With Raspberry Pi now supplying a browser capable of using Scratch 2, I thought I’d see if it was possible to get use Scratch 2 in a browser to control the GPIO pins on...
Switch Pi on – do a job – Switch off again – repeat
I was at a mates house and he’d had a new door installed without letterbox in it so he had to have an external letter box fitted. The problem, he said, was that they...
Robot Violence for Entertainment/STEM
As you may have noticed, I’ve posted a few tweets against programming/building robots whose primary purpose is to inflict violence on other robots. So I’d like to explain (in >140 chars) why I’m so...
PiPool Challenge and BBQ 2016 Saturday 20th August
Following on from last year’s inaugural event, PiPool is back! Book your tickets here Some say its bigger and better than last year’s but in fact its exactly the same except the garden’s been...
Infrared Remote Control on the Raspberry Pi
Infrared remote control receiving and sending is a great thing to play with on a computer. You don’t need a Pi to do this but its a lot more verstile than an Arduino and...
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