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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.

micro:bit and the quest for speakers

Now we all know that the micro:bit can make noise either with makecode or Python but out of the box its quite a quiet little thing. Luckily you can use some crocodile clips to connect a pair of standard headphones or use the amp:bit but these keep the

micro:bit and sharing sensors with a Raspberry Pi

"Can a Raspberry Pi use the sensors on a micro:bit?" This was the question that was asked whilst sat in the pub the other evening. A few evenings later a micro:bit was connected via i2c to a Raspberry Pi and i2cdetect was ran on the Pi: pi@raspberrypi:

micro:bit and searching i2c

Whilst this is more of a bookmark for myself it may be handy for others who are playing with the i2c bus. If your unsure if the i2c device you have connected up is working then it's a good idea to scan the i2c bus and see whats available. The

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