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…

What is it with councils that they have to follow the line of ‘We must build more and more houses’? Where I live, the town has expanded relentlessly in the last thirty years. My trip to work takes more than twice as long as it did twenty years ago because of the sheer volume of…

Well I spent bloody ages, on several occasions too, looking for how to make my wireless doorbell push switch unit work with the chime part after changing the batteries! It seems they lose their pairing information instantly and so need to be paired in some way. I tried to guess the method, and as it…

This is Henz, or Henry to give him his full name. He was a stray and had lived in the area for a long time. I know this because he was the ‘ghost’ cat that constantly crept in and stole our previous moggy’s food. The first we usually knew of him was the sound of…

I love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9EBOOAYiU One day (ha ha) I will adapt my camera to take some tilt shift photographs. Amazing

Well, I am an utterly obsessed Radio 4 listener. I will not sit in a room without it on, will not carry out a task without it on. Those near and dear to me have just had to get used to the fact as it will never go away. I’m sure I’m not the only…

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,…