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Making calculators with microbits

Posted on April 1, 2018 by blogmywiki

Well, making a calculator with THREE micro:bits really. This is, I admit, a bit of a mad project but I’ve been fascinated by calculators since childhood. I can remember cheap pocket calculators being invented and, like digital watches, I still … Continue reading →

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Monk Makes Sensor Board for Microbit with Mu plotter

Posted on April 1, 2018 by blogmywiki

The Mu Python editor’s new plotter function continues to delight me. I connected a Monk Makes Sensor Board to a micro:bit and wrote a few lines of Python to see whether I could get some live data readings from its … Continue reading →

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Plotting live microbit sensor data in Mu

Posted on March 28, 2018 by blogmywiki

I very much enjoyed watching the video of Nicholas Tollervey’s visit to Adafruit recently, it’s well worth a look. One of the highlights for me was a new feature (currently in beta versions of Mu 1.0) that allows live plotting … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Cartwall

Posted on March 26, 2018 by blogmywiki

piCartWall A Raspberry Pi radio / theatre cartwall to play jingles or sound FX instantly using a touch screen. What it does Cartwalls are used in radio studios to play in jingles at the touch of a button. This is … Continue reading →

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The Little Box of Witter

Posted on March 17, 2018 by blogmywiki

I’ve made a Little Box of Poems with an Arduino, Raspberry Pi and even BBC micro:bit, now I want to make a Little Box of Witter: a gadget that will play the latest episode of my favourite radio programme, Wittertainment … Continue reading →

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