Reading Time: < 1 minutes If there’s one thing we Brits love, it’s an ugly Christmas sweater. Jim Bennett, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, has taken his ugly sweater game to the next level by adding IoT-controlled, Twitter-connected LEDs thanks to a Raspberry Pi Zero. IoT is Fun for Everyone! (Ugly Sweater Edition) An Ugly Sweater is great-but what’s…… Continue reading IoT ugly Christmas sweaters
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The age of the Twitter bot
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite changes to the process, setting up a Raspberry Pi as a Twitter bot is a fairly easy process. And while many such bots simply share time-lapse snapshots, or change the colour of LEDs across the globe, we know some that fill our timelines with fun, random joyfulness of a daily basis. Here are a…… Continue reading The age of the Twitter bot
Twitter makers love Halloween
Reading Time: 2 minutes Halloween is almost upon us! In honour of one of the maker community’s favourite howlidays, here are some posts from enthusiastic makers on Twitter to get you inspired and prepared for the big event. Lorraine’s VR Puppet Lorraine Underwood on Twitter Using a @Raspberry_Pi with @pimoroni tilt hat to make a cool puppet for #Halloween…… Continue reading Twitter makers love Halloween
Want To Delete Yourself From The Internet?
Reading Time: 2 minutes New Web App Helps You Do Just That! We all spend so much time online these days that we’ve got accounts and online presences all over the place. Whether it be a Dropbox or iCloud account, a RunKeeper account or a place to call our own on Twitter or Facebook, the number of websites where…… Continue reading Want To Delete Yourself From The Internet?