Oliver Marks

The below guide is to setup a pn532 nfc reader on a raspberry pi. First up make surer the PN532 is setup in UART mode, and connect to the pi ...

Simon Ridley

This guide describes how to configure a Raspberry Pi Zero W without the need of attaching it to a keyboard and monitor. Settings will be configured by editing text files ...

Mike McRoberts

So I’ve decided to mess around with Raspberry Pi controlled robots so that a) I can learn more about programming in Python and b) So I can assist the Pi ...

Ilya Titov

I love using my Wacom for work and carry it around on daily basis. Recently the touch stopped working. As the tablet is 3 years old and out of warranty ...

Oliver Marks

Recently i was given an old Myford ML8 lathe which was working but very rusty, i have never really tried dismantling and rebuild this type of machine before so this ...

Mike McRoberts

Back in April, myself and our Pi Wars robot team, led by Ian Wilkinson, participated in the Pi Wars Robot challenge at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. Although we had planned ...

Oliver Marks

We have decided to build some sumo robot at the hackspace, so i decided to take up this challenge here are some pictures from the build. Problems Attempting to cut ...

Mike McRoberts

If you’ve not heard of the ArduBoy, it is a credit card sized game machine based on the Gameboy. However, it has an 8-bit microcontroller in it (The Arduino Pro ...

Oliver Marks

This code loops over all .sql .pks and .pkb files and merges them into the current buffer, it currently need to be run from the projects root. Magit has some ...

Mike McRoberts

433MHz Radio Controlled Heating Controller with Blynk UI This is a project to control your boiler using a 433MHz radio module. I have used a simple and cheap OOK radio ...

Oliver Marks

Below are some tips and technologies used to write and deploy this blog. Getting started To get started creating your blog first install nikola with pip or use the docker ...

Mike McRoberts

I recently bought a 24 LED NeoPixel Ring. These things are great and I would highly recommend you getting one as they are great fun and very easy to use. ...

Oliver Marks

Figure 1: Window list output I have been experimenting with writing my own launcher app similar to gnome do, one of the things i wanted was to switch windows by ...

Oliver Marks

To quite screen hold down CTRL + d then press SHIFT + K and answer Y to exit the screen. Alternatively CTRL + a then type :quit. screen /dev/ttyACM0 115200 ...