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Building a Home Automation Pi

So, I've been playing around with the Raspberry Pi and home automation devices such as IKEA Trådfri lights, a TP-Link HS100 switch, my Netatmo smart thermostat and a few ESP8366 devices including various varieties of Sonoff switches. Rather than blunder on I thought it would be nice and take stock

VPN

The UK Digital Economy Act of 2017 brings into force the strong possibility that the UK government will introduce age verification to certain websites (i.e. porn). This, in itself, is worrying and something I strongly disagree with. Sadly the genie is out of the bottle with internet content. If

Microbit Game - Snowball Fight

You are going to throw a snowball at your classmates. How many times will YOU get SPLATTED! This game uses the micro:bit radio component to throw snowballs at your friends.

Microbit Game - Fill It Up

Build a game where you see who is the fastest at 'rolling' an LED round the screen, lighting everywhere it touches.

Post-installation tasks

Installing Ghost is so easy using ghost-cli and the installer does everything. Well, almost everything. Three things left for me to do on my Technicals blog: 1. Set up mail to allow resetting forgotten passwords 2. Adding Disqus commenting 3. Adding Prism code highlighting 1. Setting up mail The Ghost

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