The next release of the Debian OS 9.0 (Stretch) is scheduled on 17-6-2017 More details on this announcement can be found on the Debian mailing list Archive. https://www.debian.org/
Continue readingRaspberry pi
Raspberry Pi and RealVNC
You can now remotely connect to your Raspberry pi with RealVNC. There are more details on the Raspberry Pi website blog post. After a little bit of experimentation. I have got this working, still needs a few tweaks, but I have now enabled the option to allow Minecraft pi to be displayed inside…
Continue readingMinecraft Pi GUI
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 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 development…
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…
Continue readingRaspberry PI and DHT11
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 readingnotepad2016
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…
Continue readingJoystick parts
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 6
Further to previous posts, I have now fully soldered up the light bar project that I posted about earlier. If you remember I just had to solder on a 10 led light bar. Project with 10 LED block. And for completeness the reverse (soldered side) is here I have not tested this with…
Continue readingAdventures with Arduino Part 4
Just an update on my first project with the Arduino Microcontroller. Firstly I have sent for an acrylic plate, this allows the arduino to be attached to the plate via metal standoffs, and there is room for a breadboard, so it acts as a really portable development system. It also means projects can be moved…
Continue reading