Blogs
Connect a Raspberry Pi to an iRobot Create 3
iRobot, the makers of robotic vacuum cleaners also make educational robots designed for learning how …
Led Ticker Tape
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big fan of IoT and LEDs. I love using IoT devices to control …
Auto-posting to dev.to using a GitHub action
I’ve been wanting to build a tool to post markdown automatically to blogging platforms. That …
Getting started with GitHub Codespaces
The bane of every new developers life is getting your environment set up to be productive. And when …
New year - new me!
Jim’s got a new job as a Regional Cloud Advocate in Redmond, Washington.
Announcing a New Free Curriculum: IoT for Beginners
It is our very great pleasure to announce the release of a new, free, MIT-licensed open-source …
Using TinyML to identify farts
TLDR; Find a complete hands-on lab to build a TinyML audio classifier at …
Installing Scikit-Learn on a Apple Silicon
At the end of last year I splashed out on a shiny new Apple MacBookAir with the M1 processor as I …
Build a virtual IoT Lab with Raspberry Pis and Azure IoT Hub
The rise of virtual education has led to sweeping changes in how students are taught. A lot of …
What is edge computing, why do it, why send IoT data to the cloud?
I recently had a student reach out to me with some great questions around Edge computing and how it …
Control holiday lights with Python, Azure IoT and Power Apps
As the nights draw in here in the northern hemisphere, there are a number of winter celebrations …
Run Visual Studio Code on a Raspberry Pi
It’s finally here! An official supported version of VS Code that runs on a Raspberry Pi! …











