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Experimenting with irc bots
The November issue of Linux voice (soon to be integrated with Linux Magazine) had a tutorial on creating a simple IRC bot. (ircbot1.py) I have been experimenting with this and have put the code on github various irc chat botshttps://github.com/zleap/irc_bots1 forks.0 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: add comments re webcam, paul Sutton Merge branch 'master'…
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The Minecraft-Pi GUI program I started working on a while back is now in its own DEDICATED git repository. tkinter gui program to interact with minecraft pi editionhttps://github.com/zleap/minecraftpi-gui0 forks.0 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: update to the dev version, paul dev version has flat world with tnt blocks that explode whenh it with sword, paul added…
Continue readingProjects update June 21 2016
I seem to have been busy with a few things over the last few days. Firstly as my Arduino clock has failed (basically the time needs re-setting ). I decided to therefore use the breadboard for something else. I also need the LCD display for another project. I found instructions for a HC-SR04 triggered alarm…
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I have just set the dht11 temperature and humidity module up to work with the Raspberry Pi. Having found some instructions here. As usual it was pretty simple to connect everything together. I am looking at perhaps trying to record the data from the module in to a file. But perhaps use Python as the…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 40
Been doing more work with Scratch 4 Arduino. See previous post for information. Now that I have various LEDs working I have been looking at getting various sensors working. I did try the DHT11 but I need to work out how to interpret the data in scratch as it sends both Temperature and Humidity data…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 35
In a further update to this, I have now improved the code for this project. See comments on my tech jam post. This is still in need of refinement, for example I don’t need to load in the LCD module, but it IS getting there slowly. I have also found a python program…
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I am still working on my little notepad program. This is going well. For 2016 I intend to carry on with this but due to the mess of the original github repository, development has been moved to notepad2016 The latest version you can now saveAS add more text and then just click save to store…
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I have found an old circuit board that originally came out of an old 80’s kempston Joystick. Top view, the pads on the left have the wire colours as part of the solder (helpful) Underside, the chip is a ne555 timer, I assume this is set up to de-bounce the switches. Wire and 9way D-Sub…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 28
My next big project is to build a robot using the Arduino Uno R3 board and a robot chassis kit. The original project is detailed in the Arduino project handbook. I am however making a few modification as I go. First steps are to put the chassis together. I have soldered wires on to the…
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