Its the first Sunday of the month - that means its a Livestream hangout! We'll also be going through 10 affordable Raspberry Pi Pico & #MicroPython projects you can build today! Pi's might have gone up in prices, but Picos are unaffected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuQY...

As promised, here's a quick write up of how my eink badge from @pimoroni.com that I wore at #AtmosphereConf worked.

These colour E-ink displays are really neat! @pimoroni.com @raspberrypi.com @adafruit.com

The @pimoroni.com Tufty 2350 Makes a nice compact tool, i2c scanner, needs tidying up the layout but not a bad start :-)

Computer badge from @pimoroni.com arrived really fast. I got Irish language name badge working really quickly

Teardown of a 2026 LEGO SMART Brick

Shiver me timbers!!! After nearly six years at Tom's Hardware I am heading off for new horizons! Pimoroni, purveyors of maker toys, tools and kits has added me to its crew! From April 1st I will be Pimoroni's Content Editor. Creating content to inpsire everyone to be a maker! youtu.be/q1FYxBLDyQk

I just got an e-ink badge in case I don't look like enough of a nerd at events. There is a discount at @pimoroni.com with the code HAPPYPIDAY shop.pimoroni.com/products/bad...

…ポチってしまった…。いやほら、今日はPi Dayで20%OFFだからね。送料入れても1万円切ったからね（スタンドも付けたから100円くらい足出たけど）。しかたないよね！

Small preview of a web based interface for my SPOKE board where you can search for sounds, load them onto the webpage and then use the board to trigger them. I already have a million ideas for lessons/workshops/installations.

It’s workshop time again. @pimoroni.com GFX pack / Raspberry Pi Pico W/2W kits plus an assortment of other Pimoroni stuff headed out to teach a university group about sending metrics to Prometheus and @grafana.bsky.social

Well, at least I know what time the battery ran out.

Join me Live on Sunday 7pm GMT as we checkout this trio of Badgers from @pimoroni. The graphics capabilities on these are truly next level for #MicroPython devices. youtube.com/live/L4bFDYH...

Absolutely shattered after standing up and talking about badgeware (and other shinies) for seven hours at CamJam in Cambridge MakerSpace 🫠 Good to catch up with a parade of familiar faces though, and see some new ones!

@pimoroni.com I've been working on a C API for the Tufty2350 display, and the basics are now working :-)

Recent arrivals on the shipping ship from Sheffield on Sea @pimoroni.com Badgeware Badger, Tufty and Blinky. I hope to get a #micropython project out for these soon! As always beautifully made and packaged.

I wrote an app for the @pimoroni.com Blinky 2350, it basically uses pirate example code, the menu image is my own work. :-) #BadgeLife

My RV4028 computer is getting to the point where video output would be nice. Maybe I can rig up PicoTerm on the VGA demo board... Anyway - for now I'm controlling the on board LEDs with a Pimoroni QwST Pad!

The madlads at @pimoroni.com overclocked an RP2350 microcontroller from the base clock of 150 Mhz to a whopping 861.6 MHz. It looks like 400-500 MHz can be stable on most Pico 2s, which is still wild. See: learn.pimoroni.com/article/over...

I made "Greggs Roulette", an app to decide what tasty treat to eat from Greggs! I used the new Tufty 2350 from Pimoroni, it has a lovely bright screen, great case and a powerful #RaspberryPi #RP2350 SoC (the same as the #Pico2) with Wi-Fi and onboard LiPo power! youtu.be/sCOLE6amThk badgewa.re

My mate Sam has been picked as the UK entry to Eurovision which is one of the best bits of news in the past few years. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a surprise! Look mum no computer is this year's UK Eurovision entry. An interesting and inspiring choice! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spent an enjoyable evening noodling about with @pimoroni.com 's excellent tufty badgeware. Of course I hooked it up to control WLED. Such a capable package!

Now to play a game against myself...

Built a RP2040 HUB75 driver 2yrs ago: 2 chans, 2x buffering, and 8-10bit BCM via a single DMA stream to 2 cascaded PIO engines. 7+3 PIO instr. It was a naive try. Starting fresh with RP2350. Simplifying RGB engine and refining control engine to PWM lower bitplanes, to address the min on-time issue.

Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on… by its LED display: blog.stuffedcow.net/2024/06/micr...

my Badger set from @pimoroni.com is here - in 3 different variants!! Which one shall I tinker with first? 💛

Introducing Tufty2350 - A smart interactive badge powered by Raspberry Pi RP2350! 16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM, WiFi+BT, 1000mAh battery, and a 2.8" IPS display - a whole lot of goodies in a gorgeous shell.😲 Now available to order: shop.pimoroni.com/products/tuf...

Work in progress BlueSky app on my Pimoroni Tufty!

Welp DOOM’s a thing. We can all go home and sleep now!

Tinkering with Pimoroni's new Badgeware boards, right now it's Badger 2350 and I am having fun making my own badge with custom image of me. These new badges have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, onboard lipo and charging. They can be sooo much more than just a badge, and that is what I intend to do!

Badges made it in just in time to get ready for atmosphere conf. @pimoroni.com killed it on the boxes for these. Also ty for the swd port <3

Some beautiful soldering today by Freya for her CanSat team! Thanks to @esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social and lots of others for running the competition and thanks to @pimoroni.com and @raspberrypi.com for the amazing kit! 🛰️🚀

Faster *and* smaller is an optimisation two hit combo! This PR thanks to work we're doing with badgewa.re - get yourself a badge and indirectly help make MicroPython better for everyone 😁 github.com/micropython/...

Just to prove it actually works and that wasn't a screenshot: (Still even less practical than usual though)

Who needs the default launcher anyway 😆

This weekend: discovery mode The Pirates did it again! Another beauty. We love everything about it, from packaging to the trendy badgeware! Great stuff @pimoroni.com 👏🏽

The Pimoroni badgewa.re team assembled! They are really pretty.

Pirates brought some loot... 🤔

Unicorn is my favourite letter of the alphabet. (These look really cool!) @pimoroni.com @adafruit.com

Is there a prize for fancy boxes?? Cause @pimoroni.com should win it. Also loooook at my shiny badge! Can't wait to boot it up and bring it to @fosdem.org in Brussels this weekend! #making #makers

New blog post: Booting up a Badgewear Tufty

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers github.com/ratatui/mous...

We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use. #GameDev

I have just created a 64 x 64 pixel USB C display, the HIB75 driver is a @pimoroni.com Interstate75 2350 W. I added an additional display type to @gadgetoid.com Galactic Unicorn: Multiverse library. Pygame is rendering the frame buffer being passed to the Matrix

I made another thing with my @pimoroni.com Galactic Unicorn, this time for Christmas. Produced after several freezes followed by reflashing of firmware and starting programming all over again plus a lot of swearing at Thonny. But I quite like the result anyway.

Just set up the @pimoroni.com NVMe base for my #homelab. I'm grateful for their super easy setup and clear instructions! Boot time down to 10s from 15s. Not huge, but I'm glad to have something more reliable than a microSD card.

Really proud to announce that I have partnered with Pimoroni to bring A LOT of my font designs to Badgeware!! Can't wait to see them live 🦝💛

Oooh, the @pimoroni.com folk are setting up a separate channel for their digital badges (which are also getting a design revamp!). Tufty and Badger are being updated, and are being joined by the bright LED-based Blinky! badgewa.re/?goal=0_3772...

I've also updated the @pimoroni.com Plasma 2350 FX77 script, Lots of fixes to various effects: github.com/mrglennjones...