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...

I’m playing around a lot with LIRC on the Pi and as part of that I’ve produced a fully working SKYQ /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file. It turns out that SKYQ boxes are using RC6-6-28 with no...

I’ve improved calling external Python scripts from ScratchGPIO8dev to allow for long time running programs. This allows you to make your own mini sensor script to get some data from somewhere – your own...

Having built a Robot Arm using a 3D printer and some servos, I wanted to get it to do some simple pointing at astronomical objects and the idea for pointing at the ISS as it orbits around...

ScratchGPIO8 can run external scripts e.g broadcast python test.py to run test.py Now this is great when you want to control something but lets say you decide you want to read an IR Remote...

I’ve been have a discussion via DM on twitter with David Whaley (@whaleygeek) about producing a modification of Scratch that has native blocks for GPIO (particularly for robot motor controls) Enchanting is an example...

Now, although someone who knows the true situation might be able to negate this post, since no-one with any true knowledge is allowed or willing to speak out let just assume that Occam’s Razor applies....

I just had SkyQ installed today and I though I’d give others a heads up as it is basically totally incompatibile with my existing AV distributions system around the house ! So I had 2...

When is the next delivery to your UK retailers expected to be? When do you expect the 1/customer/order limit to be rescinded? When do you expect other UK retailers to be given opportunity to...