Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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2013-03-26
Minecraft: Pi Edition - Create Massive 3D Models
I love a massive construction in Minecraft, you know when someone creates a scale model of the earth or a house to put the Taj Mahal to shame, but I’m lazy and I’m definitely not going to spend mon...
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2013-03-21
Raspbmc - Setup Live TV & PVR
I recently updated my ‘media player’ Pi, which spends most of its time showing peppa pig, to the latest version of Raspbmc; before this it was running a very old version with a cobbled together and...
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2013-03-10
Raspberry Pi - Minecraft - Snake
A post on the MCPi sub-reddit asked if someone could re-create the snake game of which there was a picture for, but no code.
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2013-03-07
Raspberry Pi - Minecraft - Planetary Gravity Sim
First off I cant take the credit for this, I came across this great post and video titled “A naive simulator of gravity, written in Python” by a guy called Thanassis Tsiodras which describes and pr...
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2013-03-04
Raspberry Pi - Google Drive & Grive
I use google drive a lot and I wanted to use my raspberry pi to automatically backup some of my more important files (i.e. documents and pictures) to google’s cloud.
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2013-02-27
Is the ability to code the new super power?
I came across this video from code.org titled “What most schools don’t teach”, which is a really good endorsement of why its important that people, particularly, children should be given opportunit...
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2013-02-18
Scratch - Abattoir Game (keep the horses out)
I’ve been trying my hand at Scratch, I wanted to see if I could transition myself as a traditional programmer to it. Learning how Scratch was structured was probably the biggest challenge, but once...