Brian Corteil

Unplugged Tots — Raspberry Pi Official Magazine Prepare children to be the problem-solvers, inventors, engineers, scientists, and technologists of tomorrow by equipping them with the foundational skills they’ll need, today. Through accessible, fun,...

The fabulous Unplugged Tots will be there. introducing computational thinking skills to children as young as 2½ via play.
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Less than two weeks to CamJam hosted at Cambridge's Makespace, been catching up on some admin today. Tickets are going fast. We have interesting talks including one by Eben Upton. Over 15 'Show & Tell' including some by younger community members :-) camjam.me

HP colour laser, dropped inkjets years ago, every time wanted to print something the heads would be blocked

Yes, and swearing at it! The first worked and the 2nd made me feel better :-) but did not work.

a black and white cat is sitting on top of a red box with the website gifsoup.com in the corner . ALT: a black and white cat is sitting on top of a red box with the website gifsoup.com in the corner .

The deep joy of fighting a printer and windows!

Nice picture of a naughty cat :-)

Left my Colour picker running in Makespace, Cambridge on display with the Giant Unicorn Hat and other projects. It feels great when people interact with your projects :-)

Michael Horne's Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Cyberdeck Boasts a Classic Psion Series 5 Keyboard - Hackster.io share.google/L59mcKNVKB5C...

See it at CamJam!

It was originally sent out in December. :-)

Date for the New Year, there's going to be a CamJam celebrating Raspberry Pi 14th birthday in Cambridge, UK hosted by Makespace, the community's workshop. Tickets will be released on Friday.
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SD cards are not affected by magnets.

Can you super glue paper to the edges or add magnets?

I have a love/hate relationship with 3D printing. This is one of the things I love about it, was able to design and print new wall mounts for this coat stand. Saved it from being thrown away :-)

Close up of a white and black cat on a yellow blanket asleep with black patch on his head and ear

Same black and cat laying on a yellow blanket

Oh to be a spoiled cat.

Yes good one so far, anyday a good day when you are wearing dinosaur socks!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone.
Jasper the Christmas Cat, lit by @pimoroni.com Plasma and old school Unicorn hat :-)

Oh the joys of parking in Cambridge :-)

No, to display an image you send it a frame over USB with a python library written by @gadgetoid.com I added a new display type for the Interstate75. You can find my version here, currently the X axis is reversed. github.com/Corteil/gu-m...

I have just created a 64 x 64 pixel USB C display, the HIB75 driver is a @pimoroni.com Interstate75 2350 W.
I added an additional display type to @gadgetoid.com Galactic Unicorn: Multiverse library. Pygame is rendering the frame buffer being passed to the Matrix

Also works with 2040 Plasma :-)

I have converted the @pimoroni.com Python Unicorn hat library to MicroPython for the Pimoroni Plasma 2540 W using Pirate MicroPython, almost 100% compatibility. You can find my efforts here.

github.com/Corteil/Plas...

Running the cross.py example without any changes to the code :-)

I have been able to run some of the original examples where they don't rely on non MircoPython features/libraries without modification of the code apart from pointing at the new library.

Pimoroni Unicorn Hat and Plasma 2350W, the centre LEDs at Red, with yellow at each corner

Spent most of the weekend converting the orgrial @pimoroni.com Unicorn hat Python library to work on MicroPython & the Pirates Plasma board. Their Plasma library does not have a brightness function & the LEDs are updated in real time not when required, both abilities have been restored.

Black and white cat asleep on no.1 slave's lap with exposed belly

It's a trap!

I have just finished making a badge for Potton Pi & Pints from an old School @pimoroni.com Unicorn hat, the brains 🧟 is a Raspberry Pi PicoW. The Pico is hosting a web site to select the current pattern display and brightness of the LEDs. Always forget how bright an Unicorn hat is when unleashed! 😎

Yes, it's now my box. Move on!

At Assemble :-)

Self portrait in 64 x 64 pixels displayed on my Giant Unicorn.

Finally tidying up the bird's nest of cables and floating PCBs before Assemble Darby tomorrow, the Colour Pixel Picker is hardware complete, just need to finish the software 😂
Part of my #GiganticUnicorn project.