Author Archives: blogmywiki

The truth about cats AND/OR dogs

Posted on January 15, 2017 by blogmywiki

Here’s an activity I think you could do with almost any year group in KS2 or KS3. You could use it to teach about the origins of modern databases in Hollerith’s punch cards used to collect US census and immigration … Continue reading →

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Trash can PC

Posted on December 30, 2016 by blogmywiki

Here’s how I got a useful, working PC for next to nothing. SonB and I found a couple of old PC chassis dumped on the street a year or so ago, both missing hard drives but we took the memory … Continue reading →

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Microbit wireless data logger with printout

Posted on December 20, 2016 by blogmywiki

This project uses 2 microbits – one attached to a thermal till-roll printer as before. This time there’s a second microbit which can be battery-powered and put on a car, parachute, dog, whatever takes your fancy. Every 10 seconds it … Continue reading →

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Connecting a thermal printer to a BBC microbit

Posted on December 18, 2016 by blogmywiki

  UPDATE – I have tidied up the code a lot and put a demo program on Github for you to enjoy – prints out a demo page like the one below: I have a Sparkfun thermal till-roll printer which … Continue reading →

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Pongo: wireless microbit Python pong

Posted on December 15, 2016 by blogmywiki

UPDATE: this project’s code is now on Github. I love the wireless capabilities of Python on the BBC microbit and I’ve been using it with some success in my Year 8 classes. I thought I’d have a go at writing … Continue reading →

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