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 ...

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 ...

Mike McRoberts

So as you can probably tell I’ve been a bit busy last few months. However, I’ve been very busy with Arduino related stuff for both Medway Makers and Maidstone Hackspace, ...

Oliver Marks

Figure 1: You can download image used in the example below. Figure 2: You can download image used in the example below. This example uses the gtk3 toolkit the same ...

Oliver Marks

The below snippet will grab the JIRA-ID under your cursor and use it to look up the summary and past it next to the JIRA-ID. You need to have org-jira ...

Mike McRoberts

I just thought I’d show you what I made at Medway Makers on Saturday 2nd April. One of our members, Leonard, has a Radio Controlled Tug Boat (see photo below) ...

Ilya Titov

This is a quick and easy 3D print that turns a Nexus 5 phone into a VR device, inspired by google cardboard. DIY: STL files on Thingiverse 2x M3 bolts ...

Oliver Marks

The first function drone-root simply searches for .drone.yml by searching up the file system tree from the current files path. The second function drone-exec runs drone exec and output the ...

Mike McRoberts

Along with some other guys from Maidstone Hackspace we have started work on a LaserTag project. I seem to have made the most progress so far and the prototype below ...

Ilya Titov

All the latest code and pcb files are available on github, go make! If you want to get in touch about the kit please tweet @webboggles, otherwise you might find ...

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 ...

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. ...

Ilya Titov

UPDATE: assembly instructions I finally had some free time to make something fun and decided to write a new game for the Attiny85 ssd1306 keychain. I reused the sleep, display ...

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 ...

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 module ...

Ilya Titov

I decided to light up the Snow Shades by MakerBot for a party using an Attiny and some LEDs. I mocked up LED position and animation: Then worked out the ...

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

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 ...

Ilya Titov

Here is a nifty solution designed to populate a google map with geo location markers and infowindow popup boxes. Please enable iframes to view the content First you’ll need to ...

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

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 ...

Ilya Titov

So if you get a blue screen of death when using a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet on your desktop, the Wacom driver may be to blame. The error message reads ...

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

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

Please enable iframes to view content. There are plenty of ways to use your equirectangular panoramas online. The main downside of the programs offering this functionality is the fiddly time ...

Mike McRoberts

So, it’s been 5 months since Pi Wars 2018 and I have not made any blog posts at all. Why is that? Did we fail so miserably that I was ...

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 ...

Ilya Titov

I’ve seen different attempts to make the dropdown menus work intuitively on touch devices and while some are trying to utilise the double tap (not the best as this triggers ...

Mike McRoberts

For years i’ve been wanting to own my very own arcade game cabinet, like Space Invaders, Pacman and so on. However, these things cost a small fortune and not only ...

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 ...

Ilya Titov

Design software is becoming more functional and sophisticated but as far as productivity goes — us humans still have to press the buttons to make stuff happen. Don’t get me ...