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.

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.

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.