The Raspberry Pi Pico does not come with any kind of wireless build-in, but that doesn’t mean you can’t control it without wires. You can easily add a Radio Control controller such as ones used to control RC model Airplanes. In an earlier video I explained about how you could interface with a receiver using […]

In the video below I show how you can take a 2D map and create a 3D model using FreeCAD. This is a manual process in mapping the contour lines from an OS map into FreeCAD. The model can then be printed using a 3D printer, or viewed online as a static image or through […]

This is an initial review of the PIP. The PIP is a Raspberry Pi handheld games console from a successful Kickstarter. The pip has been a long time coming – arriving approximately 3 years later than planned, but they have finally reached the point where they are sending out preview models for backers that have […]

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is an updated version of the Raspberry Pi Zero. It uses the same form factor and has the same connectors in the same position, but what it does have a huge performance increase. It is only a tiny bit more expensive than the Pi Zero it replaces. In the […]

This year I did a trick or treat with a difference. I supported the local Scout group going around door to door, but instead of asking for sweets we asked for donations for the local support group / food bank. As you can imagine the tins of food and non-perishable items weighted quite a bit […]

I recently upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 21.04 to Ubuntu 21.10. Unfortunately it failed with the message: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system can’t recover. Please log out and try again. This sounded like it would leave the system unusable, but by switching to a terminal and booting […]

One of the things missing from the Raspberry Pi Pico is the lack of network connectivity. There are other models that do provide that such as the Arduino version of the Raspberry Pi Pico – The Arduino Nano RP2040, but there are alternative ways to communicate. In this case I had an RC remote control […]

I was holding off on upgrading my laptop to Linux Ubuntu 21.04 due to the bug that could leave computers unbootable. Since then I’ve been had the “Do you want to upgrade” message so presumably that’s been fixed. I went through the upgrade process and upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 21.04. I did come across […]

There is a new version of Ubuntu which is now at version 21.04. The version number consists of the year and month it was released so this is from April 2021. For this version (and the previous version 6 months ago) the Ubuntu releases now include a version of the 64-bit desktop version for the […]

This is an introduction to a tank game I created. It’s an artillary style pass and play game. It is created as a demonstration of creating vector graphics in Pygame Zero and of porting / creating a game on the Raspberry Pi Pico with the Pimoroni Display Pack. Pygame Zero Game The initial version was […]