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Adventures in Electronics 5: Tilt sensor car alarm

Adventures with Electronics is a father and son project to learn how to connect up and code 37 different electronic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico. After setting up the software and firmware needed to write python code on a Raspberry Pi Pico, this is the forth project in our adventure in electronics. It uses [ ]

Adventures in Electronics 4: Push button reaction timer

Adventures with Electronics is a father and son project to learn how to connect up and code 37 different electronic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico. After setting up the software and firmware needed to write python code on a Raspberry Pi Pico, this is the third project in our adventure in electronics. It uses [ ]

Adventures in Electronics 3: 18B20 Temperature Sensor with motor

Adventures with Electronics is a father and son project to learn how to connect up and code 37 different electronic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico. After setting up the software and firmware needed to write python code on a Raspberry Pi Pico, this is the second project in the adventure in electronics. It uses [ ]

Adventures in Electronics 2: DHT11 Humidity and Temperature Sensor

Adventures with Electronics is a father and son project to learn how to connect up and code 37 different electronic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico. After setting up the software and firmware needed to write python code on a Raspberry Pi Pico, this is the first step in the adventure in electronics. It uses [ ]

Adventures in Electronics 1: Getting started

Adventures with Electronics is a father and son project to learn how to connect up and code 37 different electronic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico. This post walks you through the hardware, software and firmware you need to get started writing code on a raspberry pi pico using CircuitPython. Hardware, software and firmware These [ ]

Adventures with Electronics

Adventures with Electronics is a father and son project to learn how to connect up and code 37 different electronic sensors using a Raspberry Pi Pico. Kit: Prices and links are indicative: other suppliers may have better deals. No affiliate links. Software: You can find all the resources for the Adventures in Electronics tutorials on [ ]

How do computers work? Part 3: Supplying the power

This is the third post in a series that aims to document the process of building a Gigatron retro gaming computer which uses logic chips instead of an existing microcontroller in order to explore what each part of a general purpose computer does and how it works. You can see the first introduction post in [ ]

How do computers work? Part 2: Capacitors

This is the second post in a series that aims to document the process of building a Gigatron retro gaming computer which uses logic chips instead of an existing microcontroller in order to explore what each part of a general purpose computer does and how it works. You can see the first introduction post in [ ]

How do computers work? Part 1: Introduction

I teach computing to some brilliant students aged 11-18 in York, UK and one of my favourite parts of my job is when my students ask the how and why questions that connect the dots between the different topics and subjects that we learn in school. This is the first in a series of posts [ ]

New season of live.withcode.uk: free python resources for GCSE Computer Science

Well done to all the students (and teachers!) who worked so hard to prepare for the first ever on-screen practical python exam as part of the reformed Edexcel GCSE in Computer Science. Live.withcode.uk was launched in 2020 to provide free practical python activities and resources for teachers and the first season went live during lockdown. [ ]