Author Archives: blogmywiki

Q: When is an A&E not an A&E?

Posted on February 1, 2013 by blogmywiki

A: When it is closed to blue lights. Lewisham A&E has not been reprieved. An A&E that does not admit blue lights, that takes the 75% of the less-seriously ill people who would have gone before, which refers the seriously … Continue reading →

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Little Box of Poems with a Raspberry Filling

Posted on December 31, 2012 by blogmywiki

Back in October 2012 I made my first Little Box of Poems – this is a self-contained box that prints out a random short poem when you press a big red shiny button. I like having poems instead of receipts … Continue reading →

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Kids in America: Newtown and Twitter

Posted on December 16, 2012 by blogmywiki

Watching Newtown unfold on Twitter was a strange experience. Like most news now, I first heard of it there, a colleague breaking the news in my timeline. I didn’t join in with RTs, and there was perhaps slightly less of … Continue reading →

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Making a media centre with a Raspberry Pi

Posted on November 5, 2012 by blogmywiki

Our kids have a multitude of gizmos, but still they fight over the TV; Kid A wants to watch something back off the PVR, while Kid B is playing on the Wii and Kid C wants to watch Strictly back … Continue reading →

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How to Build a Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 21, 2012 by blogmywiki

I wanted to build a little internet printer, spewing out weather and tweets and the like. When I was testing my thermal printer, however, I got bored reading sample text and replaced it with a short poem. And that gave … Continue reading →

Posted in Arduino, education, ICT, literature, poetry | Tagged | 6 Comments