Thursday, 19 May 2016

Hack the Teacher - A lesson in physical computing using a Raspberry Pi Zero Christmas Jumper

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Just before Christmas I had some fun with a Christmas Jumper and Physical computing based around the (then) new Raspberry Pi Zero. Here is ...
Wednesday, 3 February 2016

BETT 2016 - Raspberry Pi physical computing workshop

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Last year I was intending to run a workshop for Raspberry Pi at BETT but was recovering from an appendectomy instead. This year tempting f...
Wednesday, 13 January 2016

GPIO Zero - making coding less language intensive.

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In a previous post Getting Physical with Python  I wrote about the difficulty some of the younger children in my computing group had with...
Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Shifting the Smile - Freeing up some ports on AgoBo

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This week I finally got around to setting up the code for the shift register I soldered onto AgoBo's  prototyping board several months ...

Acting the Part - A lesson in processor architecture

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Part of the syllabus for my A-level computing group (OCR A Level) is to learn about and understand the make up of a CPU. This goes beyond th...
Friday, 24 July 2015

The PiCycle an amazing student project

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I have had the pleasure this year to have been a supervisor for one of our sixth form students doing an Extended Project Qualification (...
Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Sci Fi Your Pi a design Challenge from Element14

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After my success in the Raspberry Pi Educators Roadtest winning the prize for the UK (an Up mini 3D printer) I thought I would put in a pr...