Raspberry Pi Zero & Powered USB Hub - the Ultimate Traveler's Gadget
About to embark on a trek in South-East Asia, I really didn't want to take a laptop or tablet. The first is too heavy for the »
Raspberry Pi - RealVNC Connect - the not-so-obvious feature that will blow your mind
A couple of weeks ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a partnership with RealVNC in which the latter would offer a free VNC Connect account for »
Kitchen Roll & Silicon Chips - Easy-to-build 8-Digit LED Clock
My addiction to clocks started a few years back when I got it into my head that I wanted to build a mechanical timepiece. I spent »
Great projects for your spare Raspberry Pi - Part 2 - Searching for Aliens
This is the second project in my series Great Projects for your Spare Raspberry Pi - Serving a Community. The first project in the series, Contributing »
Great projects for your spare Raspberry Pi Part 1 - Flightradar24 - Live Worldwide Aircraft Tracking
What to do with a spare RasPi? At the last count, I had eight Raspberry Pis at home. I bought my first one a few weeks »
Light Your Menorah (Hanukiyya) or Christmas Tree Remotely from your Phone
A word of warning Before I begin, a word to this blog's regular readers. This post will likely be read by people with little background in »
Install the Arduino IDE (with ESP8266 support) on a Raspberry Pi
A couple of weeks ago I set up a new bench in my workshop. It was a great new space, but each time I wanted to »
Quick and Easy Hack of the ESP8266-01 USB Adapter
We all know how fidgety it is to flash the ESP: 3.3 volts only, smoothing capacitors, GND-GPIO 0, VCC to CH_PD. Wouldn't it be »
How to Protect a Rasperry Pi from a Powered USB Hub
As most readers of this blog probably know, there's a limit to how much current you can pass through a Raspberry Pi. When used with a »
Pinning down an unlabelled 8 x 8 LED Matrix
A couple of months ago, during a visit to foreign shores, I picked up an 8x8 LED matrix. What caught my eye was that it was »