If you'd like to pre-register for Potton Pi and Pints on Saturday, 1st November, please head over to Eventbrite and grab a free ticket. #raspberrypi #raspberryjam #bedfordshire #cambridgeshire #potton www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/potton-pi-...

w00p! @pimoroni have my new Series[D] boards in stock, as well as a bunch of other UM products! shop.pimoroni.com/collections/... Please support them (and me) by plundering (legally) some of kit from them - thanks! #maker #makershelpingmakers #electronics

Pirate radio from @pimoroni.com c.2018 repurposed to play Swift bird calls in the morning and evening. Learned some crontab tricks to get the script to run and stop at scheduled times. Impressed the hardware works on a modern install of Pi OS Buster lite after all these years. #nature #RaspberryPi

Summer sale! It's pretty darn hot here in Sheffield-on-sea so if you use the code "SCORCHER" during checkout then you'll get 20% off your order (excluding bare Raspberry Pi boards and shipping)! Use this link to auto apply the discount: shop.pimoroni.com/discount/SCO...

Coming to terms with my car writing itself off after spending £2000 on repairs last year, followed by my house showing subsidence problems. All put into perspective by my daughter’s unexpected sudden emergency admission into hospital last month. They’re doing OK now with treatment but still a worry.

Drainage work being done at home, leak in heating and the plumber fails to turn up as a head injury put them in hospital. I took my mind off it all by spilling a full mug of coffee over my desk. Keyboard no longer works. Replacement has strange tilt and no legs to adjust it. How's your day going?

A productive day sorting out all my @pimoroni.com #presto C++ code and publishing it finally. Including my touchscreen and accelerometer drivers and a set of example projects to show them in use. See the presto-projects folder here: github.com/Footleg/rpi-...

I just updated one of my most read blog posts when my Raspberry Pi robot stopped working on Bookworm after I updated the OS to the latest this weekend. adventures-with-pi.blogspot.com/2021/08/runn...

Soldered 64 @pimoroni.com old school Unicorn hats for my #GalacticUnicorn project, I soldered 3 pins to the power and data pins to be able to access the Neopixels without the 40 pin header. The way I have stacked the hats looks like I'm maker poker with Neopixels chips :-) I raise you 4096 pixels!

I'm at Malvern Kit car show this weekend with Hacky Racers, comparing notes with the Cyclekart builders

All set up ready for my monthly kids coding session in the local library village community centre.

This method is fundamental to how modern displays, including computer monitors, TVs, and smartphone screens, produce color images. By varying the intensity of these three primary colors, screens can create millions of different colors.

I’ve now put my AA graphics library together with my C++ touchscreen and IMU hardware drivers to implement gravity in my balls simulation on the @pimoroni.com #Presto

I've enjoyed the articles in Hackspace mag and creative content online by #LewisWorkshop for many years. Losing his driving license on medical grounds with 2 kids to get around is a really tough break. Spread a little love and support his fund raiser for alternative transport. gofund.me/55e6445b

My @pimoroni.com Presto is full up. Can I get a bigger screen please?

An idyllic day in the Forest of Dean with all day not as forecast sunshine. We did a 10km family walk.

My partner got weirded out by how much my new calathea plant wiggles during the day, so of course I had to capture an 11 hour timelapse of it wiggling.

We are temporarily suspending shipping to the US. We lost the EU market recently too and our business is Not Good™ If you are in Australia or the UK, you can still buy from us at www.tabletoptinkering.com. Reposts no matter where you are will be appreciated. Please support small businesses 💜

The degree to which I feel unsettled by world economic events is such that I have felt nauseous all day, making eating difficult. As someone looking at potential retirement in the coming years my financial future outlook has taken such a hit I am not sure I will have the option to stop working.

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I had a 75% scale McGybeer lizard 3D printed in stainless steel by #jlcpcb and it came out amazing! #3dprinting

Trying out ideas for laying out 64 @pimoroni.com Unicorn hats to make the Gigantic Unicorn this seems to be a winner

Great #CamJam today. Loads of great conversations with visitors (grown ups and kids), and with old friends (grown up big kids). On my feet all day so my knees hurt now. I was too busy to take any pictures.

Wallow in the trauma & suffering of others with BBC news today as they front the news headlines with a promo for their panorama program tonight where you can experience an extended session of wallowing in the trauma & suffering of others from the comfort of your own home. Or do something productive.

Major success today at Makespace. Reflow soldered the first of my newly made PCBs and despite some paste and reflow challenges I just confirmed it works.

I'm happy to announce that #CamJam has a talk from Raspberry Pi’s Luke Wren, Principal ASIC Engineer. His talk is about the RP2350 microcontrollers design. Luke is also the designer of the Hazard 3 RISC-V cores on the RP2350. Tickets are available here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1243972107...

Our chickens are full of surprises! (Egg for scale)

Got the go ahead to do a #RaspberryPi bits and bobs box at #CamJam on 1st March :-) Bargains galore. Will tend to be older stuff, but some real gems in there including older Pis! Will post pics of my progress! Cash donations to charity, I reckon :-) Https://camjam.me for tickets!

My first new PCB project in several years. Fresh off the fab line. Now I can build prototypes on breadboard with 14 different SMD package sizes, and practice some more fiddly SMD soldering.

I am drinking coffee late in the day directly against the advice of my* professional sleep therapist. *My wife, who gives sleep advice professionally for her job.

Thanks to a timely email from MoneySavingExpert.com Cheap Energy Club scheme, I discovered my electricity supplier was still offering a fixed rate deal at the same rate as my variable rate deal. With the UK energy price cap expected to rise 6-7% in April, I was able to avoid any increase.

Progress with C++ on the @pimoroni.com Presto tonight. Settled on a 480x240 screen double buffer to avoid complex PSRAM shenanigans and wrote a graphics library method to scale my circles back to round. 100 bouncing balls at almost 24fps, butter smooth. Random seed off a floating ADC.

Some of the talks for the Rasp Pi Birthday #CamJam An Audio and Video  Communicator with a Pi PicoW - The Farnsworth Ham Radio and Raspberry Pi My Art projects with the Raspberry Pi Hacking a Elliott 803 main frame with Picos & Raspberry Pi www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...

Until today I thought I'd never made it into the pages of the #RaspberryPi Hackspace magazine. But I picked up issue 80 from my partially read magazines pile at lunchtime today and found a very nice mention of my talk 'How to Map Caves' in the article on #emfcamp2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZR...

We had a great project photography training session at Cambridge Makespace last night. I took along a couple of my small robots to practice taking some beauty shots. #maker #Robots #pcb #robotics #3dprinting #RaspberryPi

Just booked tickets (as an exhibitor) for the Cambridge Raspberry Pi 13th Birthday Jam. 1st March. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...

I documented my setup to get Ollama, Open WebUI, and code suggestions in VS Code using a Raspberry Pi 5. You can use this for any Linux computer. dphacks.com/2025/02/09/r...

CamJam is hosting a Birthday Party for the #RaspberryPi at the Cambridge Uni Computer labs on the 1st March. Be great if you can joint us. We looking for Jam Makers(volunteers), Show & Tellers plus Presenters for talks. Tickets will be available soon. watch this space or your inbox for details.

I made my first accessory for the @pimoroni.com Presto. It slides onto the base so the sensor stick is solidly mounted.

Not one, but two #pcb projects sent to fabrication! Both approved and in production already at #jlcpcb I put in a couple of exotic 3D print jobs too just to see what the print on demand services are like. #maker

Any Pi Pico fans around here? @gadgetoid.com has a fantastic computer wall paper that will help with keeping the magic smoke IN! ko-fi.com/s/ae1ab316fc Fantastic attention to detail. #Pi #RaspberryPi #Pico #Pinout

Decided to sell all my HP Jornada PDAs over on eBay. I got good use out of them, but it's time to move on! Mikey sad now... :-( www.ebay.co.uk/usr/recantha

Don't forget to poke this issue if you're interested in a - nondescript microcontroller breakout board - pinout deskmat github.com/pinout-xyz/p...

There's going to be a CamJam on the 1st of March. We will be needing talks, "show and tell" tables and most importantly Jam makers.

Excited and humbled to find I appeared in the #MagPi 150th special issue article for my coding outreach volunteering, alongside some much more famous names.

I got my 3 body problem simulation running on the RP2350. So much better with a floating point unit and faster CPU. Running on a #Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 and their 2.8” display pack. I may have to buy a #Presto now! #Pico2 #RaspberryPi

We're stoked to bring you our new Smart Home collection in store! We are an official reseller of home automation products from SONOFF - long battery life, easy to setup, and superb value! shop.pimoroni.com/collections/...

I cleaned up and updated my #Maker projects Trello board and found I had actually finished a good number of projects in 2024. Some of these were more than a year in the making, but these were what I got over the finish line last year. Details for each in the ALT text #3dprinting #RaspberryPi #Robots