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Looking here, I see I pretty much only mentioned my Pi activities when I received my first one! Since then I have completed a few projects and have a couple in development. Photobooth My first main project was a Photobooth – a very popular application of a Pi I found out. I built one for…

Well the first steps to working with new hardware usually go through the age-old step of making an LED flash. I finally managed to do that very recently and recorded the moment for posterity! I recommend reading MagPi magazine – it’s very professional and very informative. What more could you want from a mag? Please…

Same day that my Pi arrived, I tried to write the Debian squeeze image to an 8GB Sandisk Micro SD. Actually I tried it with a 2GB unbranded and found the same problem. The problem was that when clicking the ‘Write’ button in Win32DiskImager, it would say it could not lock the disk, the disk…

my Pi has arrived. Having ordered it on 3/3/12, it arrived by First Class Royal Mail this morning. The anticipation was unnatural I’m sure. I thought once opened, that huge anticipation would quickly ebb, but now there is SO MUCH that can be done with it. It’s not like a dvd or a book i.e….

omg, my Pi has been shipped from Element 14. Farnell just pinged me an email saying it’s been shipped. No tracking number yet, but will keep refreshing. I’m guessing it’s a Monday delivery now as it’s Friday today. Why do people always ship things on Fridays!!!??? Exciting times. More will be posted…

This seems like a superb idea. When I began in computing, indeed when I later came to teach it, we were learning/teaching programming. Every home computer was basically there waiting to be programmed. Loading a purchased game onto it was a sideline activity. ICT in schools does not teach programming as far as I know,…