I recently made myself an Adafruit Pocket PiGRRL and I wanted to modify it so it would warn me when the battery was running low - there is a small red LED but its hidden inside the case!

I recently made myself a Pocket PiGRRL based on Adafruit’s tutorial - it really is a great machine and a brilliant learning experience.

I was having a chat with David Whale, my co-author of Adventures in Minecraft and he remarked that wouldn’t it be cool if you could control something in Minecraft using the Microbit. (Btw - you sho...

I wanted to create something with the MicroBit which used the on-board accelerometer and I settled on a Magic 8 Ball, the fortune-telling pool ball which when shaken and asked a question it provide...

I got my hands on one of the BBC’s Microbit’s as part of ntoll’s Micro World Tour.

After creating the PiAware Flight Indicator LED I was keen to see what else I could do with the aircraft data my PiAware setup was retrieving for me.

I’ve been using the PiAware software to track aircraft flying near me and I liked the idea of turning an LED on when a plane was overhead (or at least near by!).