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PiWars and Small Robots at Calderdale College

Before the end of the summer term in 2020 an introductory microcontroller session was ran using tinkercad to simulate basic electronics with a micro:bit. As this sparked an interest in the students I decided to enter a college team into to 2021 PiWars competition. As we had two groups

micro:bit radio bluetooth bridge

We all know that the micro:bit is unable to use bluetooth or radio functionality at the same time. However...what would happen if we gave the sending micro:bit an extra external bluetooth interface?

FreeCad....

Yes...I know it's been a while since the last post but I've recently started playing around with freecad Partly to start getting geared up for PiWars and partly to get the ender 2 gainfully employed and not sat there looking forlorn. It's certainly a bit of a giggle to

A summer of Robot building at the library

With the school summer holidays on the horizon, the idea of a robot building workshop was pitched to Kirklees Libraries who showed interest. A few potential ideas/designs were discussed and the one that seemed to fit all the correct holes was the PounderBot. The Pounderbot was a design created

PyGame Invaders

It began in a galaxy far far away...actually it didn't really but started here on Earth.

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