Tag Archives: poetry

Robot poetry and storytelling in Scratch

Posted on July 11, 2017 by blogmywiki

There’s nothing new under the sun, and this is an old idea that went down incredibly well: generating random stories and poems by picking random words from word banks. I am grateful for my former colleague Cassie Wise for suggesting … 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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Little Box of Haiku

Posted on November 19, 2014 by blogmywiki

Following on from my Little Box of Poems – which printed a random poem on till-roll (and which also inspired Carrie Anne Philbin’s Little Box of Geek) – I present: The Little Box of Haiku. It’s made from a RaspberryPi … 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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Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 18, 2012 by blogmywiki

Anyone who’s unfortunate enough to follow me on Flickr knows that I’ve become a bit obsessed by till-roll lately. I bought a tiny thermal till-roll printer to hook up to my Arduino or RaspberryPi, the idea being to make a … Continue reading →

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