Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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2016-06-17
Mayhem 2 - an open source cave shooter
I recently ported an abandoned version the classic amiga game, Mayhem, to the Raspberry Pi - I did this exclusively so I could play the game with my friend, Lee, using RetroPie.
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2016-05-19
Raspberry Pi - Playing a Sound File with Python
A question I get asked a lot in Picademy is how to I play a sound file using Python.
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2016-04-12
Mayhem, Amiga game, ported to Raspberry Pi
Update - I’ve taken Mayhem forward to create Mayhem 2.
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2016-03-27
Raspberry Pi - Take screenshots of Minecraft
If you going to take a screenshot of Minecraft: Pi edition (or anything else for that matter), I really like a command line utility called raspi2png, its simple and screenshots images which have be...
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2016-03-25
Microbit - get data from USB
As part of my Minecraft, a Microbit and an X-Wing project, I used the USB to read data from the Microbit’s accelerometer and buttons to make the X-Wing move.
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2016-03-25
Raspberry Pi gpiozero holdable button
The current release of gpiozero doesn’t have the support to hold a button down e.g. when a button is pressed and then held down for 1 second something happens.
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2016-02-02
Microbit - a Bop-it game in Python
I wanted to create a simple game for the Microbit and after bring brought an R2D2 Bop-it game I thought I would make one whereby you have to press the A and B buttons in time.