Car Tetris lll: New Beginnings, helping Bill move from Sheffield to Leicester before he starts his placement with Royal Enfield Motor cycles!

Looking forward to #emfcamp next week, got lots of prep to do, including about soldering up about 12 of my Space Unicorn Hextension. Also make up some Evil Henchman, guess I should also print some of the none evil Henchman as well

Nice, EMFcamp has a family film showings this camp :-) and there are some crackers

New toy! Finally setup my new snapmaker U1, first print, I could watch this for hours the head changing is so cool! And almost no poop. I also have a Bambu A1, is two machines enough for a farm or is it more an allotment?

Quick impromptu May day sale 15% off from today till Tuesday. With the code "MayDay" at the checkout. Https://extkits.co.uk.

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

Been working on my Hacky Racers autonomous robot, been vibe coding with Claude. Experience has been very good so far, been able to improve my code and add lots of tests and enhancements including GUIs local/web for the robot, an app calibrating the camera to help with distortion at the edges.

Thank you to everyone who helped/attended yesterday at CamJam hosted at Makespace. It was a great day and sadly be the last time CamJam will be held in this location as CamJam will be relocating in the near future.

I should be at Cambridge's Makespace getting ready for Cam Jam however I at a gig waiting to see the Kaiser Chiefs 😁, their support band the Corella were good. #CamJam

For the day walkers :-)

Been playing with my @pimoroni.com Blinky 2350, this time ported a version of Conway's Game of Life. :-) #BadgeLife

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

Parent tech support again, the normal complaint about it being too slow and nagging about not enough memory. login in from home and found about 5 Edge windows open and at lest 60+ tags, most them Facebook games! Wonder what the problem could be 🤔

CamJam is sold out!

This time next week, CamJam will done & dusted. Hopefully be in the pub, having a burger :-) Big thanks to @recantha.bsky.social for his support with words. random raspberry cake for your enjoyment

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...

Less than two weeks to CamJam hosted at Cambridge's Makespace, been catching up on some admin today. Tickets are going fast. We have interesting talks including one by Eben Upton. Over 15 'Show & Tell' including some by younger community members :-) camjam.me

The deep joy of fighting a printer and windows!

Nice picture of a naughty cat :-)

Left my Colour picker running in Makespace, Cambridge on display with the Giant Unicorn Hat and other projects. It feels great when people interact with your projects :-)

Michael Horne's Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Cyberdeck Boasts a Classic Psion Series 5 Keyboard - Hackster.io share.google/L59mcKNVKB5C... See it at CamJam!

Date for the New Year, there's going to be a CamJam celebrating Raspberry Pi 14th birthday in Cambridge, UK hosted by Makespace, the community's workshop. Tickets will be released on Friday. mailchi.mp/9d1d55c5214f...

I have a love/hate relationship with 3D printing. This is one of the things I love about it, was able to design and print new wall mounts for this coat stand. Saved it from being thrown away :-)

Oh to be a spoiled cat.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. Jasper the Christmas Cat, lit by @pimoroni.com Plasma and old school Unicorn hat :-)

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

Also works with 2040 Plasma :-)

I have converted the @pimoroni.com Python Unicorn hat library to MicroPython for the Pimoroni Plasma 2540 W using Pirate MicroPython, almost 100% compatibility. You can find my efforts here. github.com/Corteil/Plas...

Spent most of the weekend converting the orgrial @pimoroni.com Unicorn hat Python library to work on MicroPython & the Pirates Plasma board. Their Plasma library does not have a brightness function & the LEDs are updated in real time not when required, both abilities have been restored.

It's a trap!

I have just finished making a badge for Potton Pi & Pints from an old School @pimoroni.com Unicorn hat, the brains 🧟 is a Raspberry Pi PicoW. The Pico is hosting a web site to select the current pattern display and brightness of the LEDs. Always forget how bright an Unicorn hat is when unleashed! 😎

Yes, it's now my box. Move on!

At Assemble :-)

Self portrait in 64 x 64 pixels displayed on my Giant Unicorn.

Finally tidying up the bird's nest of cables and floating PCBs before Assemble Darby tomorrow, the Colour Pixel Picker is hardware complete, just need to finish the software 😂 Part of my #GiganticUnicorn project.

For the day-walkers

Used the colour picker to create this 8-bit Pacman image. :-) software status is good enough. Need to make a couple changes to the function keys, currently too easy to wipe your hard work with one key press. This Saturday I will be showing off this project and others at assemble. #giganticUnicorn

I'm looking forward to showing off.... Er sharing my old school @pimoroni.com Unicorn hat projects this Saturday. It's a great making festival with all sorts of makers sharing their projects & the joy of making.

Update for the Giant Unicorn hat colour selector. It works! 😎 #GiganticUnicorn

Anywhere near #Derby this Saturday 25th October and interested in #making things or doing things with #technology? Then get along to #Assemble at #DerbyMuseum

I hit a bit of a brick wall this weekend programming a save buffer function for the colour picker. Then copied and then reinstated the saved data was lost! After a bit of thinking I realised that copying the buffer, that the data was not copied just the labels pointing to the original buffer 1/2

I will be at Assemble, Darby on Saturday, showing off the @pimoroni.com Giant Unicorn hat and other projects. #GiganticUnicorn

Software has been started, the LEDs buffer is sent to the PyGame on a Raspberry Pi. #GiganticUnicorn

Working on the layout for the colour sector for my #GiganticUnicorn project, you are able to change the colour of individual pixels on the Unicorn hats.... Well you will be able to when I finish the programming :-)

Fun times, cracking open a phone to replace the battery. Not scary at all 😱, letting Tom take the lead. He not worried, new battery or phone whatever the outcome 🤣

As mentioned by @cannonfodder.bsky.social a while ago there is a very good #maker event in #Derby later this month. If you are near Derby on the 25th October head along to #Assemble at #DerbyMuseum derbymuseums.org/assemble/

The faders are motorised and move to the stored value after selection, currently set up for RGB colour values. It's programmed in CircuitPython. The motor driver is a @pimoroni.com Motor 2040 and is handling all the inputs and outputs. #GiganticUnicorn

For the day walkers

Further update on my #GiganticUnicorn colour controller build, now have the Trellis keypad/display working and the fader is able to set colour level, currently only a single channel is connected, when selecting a pixel, fader is set automatically to current level.