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Tiny OLED displays

Posted on September 25, 2016 by davidms49

At the recent CAMJAM I got lots of questions about a small OLED display I was using as part of a home lighting control project. If you are looking to include a small inexpensive status display on your next project, one of … Continue reading →

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Tempus Fugit WordClock Section Goes Live

Posted on May 21, 2016 by davidms49

With the first TF WordClock kits shipping yesterday the TF area on the blog is now  fully live. In addition to information about the TF there is a new instruction page where you can find links to the instruction / … Continue reading →

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Happy Arduino Day 2016

Posted on April 2, 2016 by davidms49

Happy Ardunio Day 2016 from the Meandering Pi. We will be at the Peterborough Raspberry Jam on the 9th of April  showing off the latest work on the Tempus Fugit WordClock in both Pi Zero and Arduino Nano Versions, together … Continue reading →

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WordClock Prototype PCB Tested

Posted on March 7, 2016 by davidms49

The prototype Tempus Fugit PCB arrived as promised last week from Ragworm, leaving me just enough time to get it built up our Show & Tell at the Pi Party on Sunday. We had lots of positive feedback particularly with … Continue reading →

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Tempus Fugit WordClock Kickstarter for your Pi or Arduino

Posted on February 20, 2016 by davidms49

As trailed in an earlier blog posting I have spent a bit of time over the last couple of weeks working up my Word Clock to run as a Kickstarter. The result is the Tempus Fugit WordClock. you can see in … Continue reading →

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BBC Micro:Bit Hands-On

Posted on January 28, 2016 by davidms49

We Attended a great STEM BBC Micro:bit networking event earlier this week at Reading University, I had seen the Micro:bit at BETT but had not been able to get ‘hands-on’. The first thing to be clear is that while there is … Continue reading →

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Meandering Pi @ BETT2016 RaspberryPi JAM

Posted on January 22, 2016 by davidms49

We will be at the RaspberryPi Jam @ BETT 2016 in London this Saturday, running a show & tell table. In addition to showing how you can use the PiMuxClock and Pi_LCD boards to support Key Stage 3 & 4 computing activities … Continue reading →

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PiZero Christmas Project Complete

Posted on January 3, 2016 by davidms49

Update If you don’t want to go down the full DIY route you can purchase a PCB and kit of parts to make your own wordclock kit but clicking on the following link Order your Tempus Fugit Wordclock kits here   Back … Continue reading →

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Pi Zero and the Pi-LCD

Posted on December 7, 2015 by davidms49

Got a Pi Zero working with a Pi-LCD board this evening for a bit of fun, worked fine but not well balanced !  

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PiZero

Posted on November 29, 2015 by davidms49

Pi-LCD software uploaded to GitHub so it is time to have a play with my PiZero’s – I managed to get the last Magpi in Sunbury Tesco’s, and my wife got me one on-line [ that is love for you … Continue reading →

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