Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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2017-05-05
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Portrait
I recently wanted to turn my Raspberry Pi Official Touchscreen portrait (i.e. sideways!), which turns out is a bit of pain.
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2017-04-24
Blue Dot - a bluetooth remote for Raspberry Pi
Blue Dot is a really simple way to add Bluetooth remote control to your Raspberry Pi projects.
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2017-01-05
Raspberry Pi - 4 digit 7 Segment display, gpiozero
I recently picked up some ‘retro 4 digit LED displays’ from pimoroni, noticing there was no support in gpiozero for 7 segment displays (either single or multi digit) I decided to add them and creat...
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2016-12-08
Raspberry Pi - bash memory split check
I needed a bash script which would only launch a program on a Raspberry Pi if there was enough memory dedicated to the GPU.
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2016-11-29
Compile Allegro 5.x for Raspberry Pi
I am in the process of porting Mayhem 2 to Allegro 5 (with the help of Jonas Karlsson), and wanted to compile the latest version of Allegro on the Pi, as only an older version is available through ...
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2016-10-24
Raspberry Pi, 7 Segment Display, gpiozero
I’ve been working on an update to gpiozero to add a 7 segment display - hopefully this will make it into gpiozero soon, but until then if you want to use a 7 segment display with your Raspberry Pi ...
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2016-09-20
Microbit making Minecraft Earthquakes
In this tutorial you are going to connect your Microbit up to your Raspberry Pi and program them so that when your Microbit is shaken it creates an earthquake in Minecraft.