Category Archives: education

Adding an LED to the internet printer

Posted on April 29, 2013 by blogmywiki

Sometimes I’m not sure if my little Raspberry Pi-powered GoFreeRange internet printer is actually working or not – the Raspberry Pi is hidden inside the box, and you can’t usually see the onboard LEDs. Today I thought my printer had … Continue reading →

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Maths is not an exact science

Posted on March 4, 2013 by blogmywiki

Recently I’ve been going through the peculiar hell that is the Teaching Agency maths skills test. Anyone who wants to be a teacher has to pass this, even if you just want to teach GCSE English. Everyone says ‘you’ll be … 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 →

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The Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy

Posted on August 25, 2012 by blogmywiki

My favourite museum in the whole wide world has to be the Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy in Cornwall. Porthcurno has a fascinating history – undersea telegraph cables joined Victorian Britain to the Empire and beyond, coming up on the … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi day 2: I try to install an application

Posted on May 6, 2012 by blogmywiki

Yesterday I said I didn’t think there was an easy way of installing new software in the Raspberry Pi version of Debian Squeeze. Well, yes and no. There is a way, but it ain’t easy. Installing software in Linux is … Continue reading →

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