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Teaching Sonic Pi

Posted on March 1, 2016 by blogmywiki

I’ve been teaching my first ever lessons with Sonic Pi this week. Sonic Pi blurs the distinction between learning / teaching coding and music. I’ve been wanting to do this since I had my world turned slightly upside down by … Continue reading →

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Python activity – recreate Matisse’s Snail

Posted on February 22, 2016 by blogmywiki

  Here’s a fun lesson with Python Turtle graphics I did with my Year 7s. They had done some Python before – mainly stuff with loops, making and breaking Caesar cyphers, but I think it’s fair to say that they … Continue reading →

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Updated URLs for your internet radio

Posted on February 21, 2016 by blogmywiki

I’ve just been doing my annual maintenance on my kitchen radio – it’s an old RaspberryPi with a lovely Pimoroni Displayotron3000, and it runs their lovely radio script. (You configure it by editing the dot3k.cfg file in ~/Pimoroni/displayotron/dot3k/advanced) I’ve made … Continue reading →

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MicroBit Happy Plant

Posted on February 17, 2016 by blogmywiki

I had a go at making Geekfish’s Happy Plant project myself – this aims to tell you if your plant is thirsty using a BBC MicroBit, a resistor, some nails and a bit of Python code. I edited the code … Continue reading →

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3 ways of making sound with the BBC MicroBit

Posted on February 17, 2016 by blogmywiki

Games on the MicroBit are way more fun when they make noise. Here are 3 ways of making sound that I’ve tried with things I had lying around the house, in ascending order of usefulness / awesomeness: 1) A loudspeaker. … Continue reading →

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