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I’ve been ordering a large number of things from ThePiHut lately, and the university procurement system needs quite a few details of each order line so they can actually make the purchase.

The original symbol as defined in the official mikroBUS library The process begins with an original component that consists of two physically independent connectors housed in a single package.

Two basic paddle switches fully assembled.

For the past two years I have worked with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation and in that time I’ve developed several hardware prototypes to support our research at Lancaster University and towards the end of my tenure The Foundation comissioned a report…

Part of a (short) series on 'knowing enough to be dangerous' with Docker.

Part of a (short) series on 'knowing enough to be dangerous' with Docker.

Historically I have struggled to maintain a decent list of bookmarks in any browser - for some reason putting them in the browser just means that I immediately forget that they exist at all, making the whole exercise rather pointless.

This post uses interactive code blocks!

I’ve been continuing to rework my site lately, and have just thrown together a basic integration with Mastodon for post comments.

This is a slowly growing list of annotations for blocks in Makecode, mostly to document these for myself whenever I need to write another extensions.

I don’t have any decent cameras, just my mobile phone (Currently a Google Pixel 5), but sometimes I do manage to get a half-decent shot or two, and apparently the one thing that this phone is particularly good at is macro photos.

I don’t have any decent cameras, just my mobile phone (Currently a Google Pixel 5), but sometimes I do manage to get a half-decent shot or two.

It works (mostly) out of the box now!

This is a follow up to a previous article So!

The original whiteboard design for the jac:stack.

I’m still writing this article, expect missing content!

This module is rather unimaginably named the ‘Micro:bit GPS Logger Prototype’ as it never really worked well enough to warrant a proper, snappy name.

I recently found out from the preschool that my daughter isn’t keeping up with the other kids with her speech development.

I have a Yoga Book - the only laptop that I’ve actively wanted at launch - and with its release now in the dim and distant past of 2016 its really showing the age of its hardware, so I’ve decided after some deliberation to attempt to get a working Linux s…

I’ve always struggled with sleep, even from a very early age; my mother will gladly regale anyone who asks that as a toddler, she would leave me to sleep whenever or wherever I fell asleep, as she could never get me down for a nap otherwise.

I’m terrible at writing at length.

I’ve thrown together a little demo to show off the micro:bit v2’s microphone functions, mostly to demonstrate the update rate (its very high!).

In a fit of buying interesting hardware a while ago, I picked up two of these joystick modules, each has a nice bezel, and two potentiometers on the back for sensing position; but mostly I picked them up becuase they have a really really nice feel to their

… I think I need more smarts in my BMS.