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Reading Serial data from a Raspberry Pi Pico

geekcandy·12 November 2023

This post documents what I did to get serial data from my Pico to be stored/displayed on my PC (which could equally be a full Raspberry Pi) The reason for this is…

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Getting a servo to turn on RPi 400

geekcandy·9 November 2023

Thing I have learned: You don’t need a separate battery pack to power this continuous servo FS90R. You can power it from the 5V pin on the RPi I need to remember…

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Test embedded Python using WithCode plugin

geekcandy·28 October 2023

[withcode id=”3C” mode=”embed” width=”1000px” height=”600px”]

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How to embed links from Repl.it

geekcandy·28 October 2023

Add a custom HTML block Then use an iframe with the following format

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Year 12 Modality Check Program

geekcandy·28 October 2023
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How to embed links from Gists to an iframe

geekcandy·28 October 2023

Our VLE doesn’t allow us to embed <script> tags which is the only way that Gist allows embeds of code but I found this alternative which seems to work. TLDR; add .pibb…

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Adventures with microbits

geekcandy·21 October 2023

It’s the Raspberry Pi Competition with PA Consulting again and this year’s topic is about healthcare and well-being. The students who want to do the competition have been talking about sensors to…

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