Ben Nuttall's blog

During the first COVID lockdown, stuck at home, bored, I had a silly idea: could I use the insertion of a floppy disk as a trigger to control something from a Raspberry Pi?

Back in 2015, I had the idea for gpiozero — a Python library for Raspberry Pi, making programming GPIO devices simpler by abstraction: instead of thinking about pin channels, voltages, pull-up resistors and rising or falling edges, we think about buttons…

Last year I came across a few paper family trees from different sections of my family my Gran had collected, and I decided to look for a way to digitise them and bring them all together.

There's a football manager game I got for my birthday when I was nine years old: FIFA Soccer Manager 97.

I realised I hadn't blogged anything outdoorsy for an awfully long time.

Last Summer I wrote about building my own static site generator called Beemo.

Last week was PyCon UK, which took place in Manchester for the first time.

I have a habit of revamping my website every few years.

Cambridge-based hosting company Mythic Beasts — long-time friends of Raspberry Pi people and products — launched a unique service back in 2016: Raspberry Pi hosting, what they call their "Pi Cloud".

piwheels has now passed 500,000,000 downloads!