A Visit to Pi Towers.

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Oct 252014
 
A Visit to Pi Towers.

On Wednesday I went to Cambridge to visit the Raspberry Pi Headquarters, affectionately known as ‘Pi Towers’, to hang out for the day. I met and talked to pretty-much everybody during the day. ‘Everybody’ is now quite a lot of people. There must be about 20 people working at Pi Towers now. In May there was a large, unoccupied space on one side of the office. This time, that space was full of people working on computers. Raspberry Pi has recently hired a bunch of new engineering talent as a result of Broadcom closing down […more…]

Do you want touch on a Raspberry Pi screen, and if so, why?

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Oct 142014
 
Do you want touch on a Raspberry Pi screen, and if so, why?

Google+ has recently launched a poll feature. I thought it’d be fun to see what people’s attitudes are towards touchscreens on the Raspberry Pi. So yesterday I started a little poll. If you’d like to add your voice, you can vote with your G+ account. If you don’t have a G+ account, feel free to leave a comment below. https://plus.google.com/116371886106894368991/posts/cKXyYhSfmrp (If the poll doesn’t appear embedded above, you can find it here.) Early Results At the time of posting, the results were… So what do you think? Do you want touch on a Raspberry Pi […more…]

Programming a KickStarter Tracker in Python. Part 2.

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Oct 032014
 
Programming a KickStarter Tracker in Python. Part 2.

So this is part 2 of the KickStarter Tracker in Python. (If you’ve not seen part 1 yet, that’s here.) We got the basics working last time. Now we want to make it look nicer, add more campaigns and have it running continously. So first let’s see about how we can introduce some colour… Adding Colour To Console Output There may well be more elegant ways to get the job done here, but I found a way that uses what’s called “escape sequences”. These are basically codes which can be used to modify the characteristics […more…]