Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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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.
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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...