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Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #10: ULTRA Blinky!
It’s day #10 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! It's another blinky day today, and what a festival of blink today's box brings us! In your little black box you...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #9: Ice Cold Coding!
It’s day #9 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today is another control component day, and it just wouldn't be right for us not to include a temperature sensor considering the...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #8: Rainbow Ring!
It’s day #8 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're playing with addressable LEDs again, but this time in the format of an RGB LED ring - it's another...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #7: Time to Slide!
It’s day #7 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're jumping back to a control component - something we can use to physically control our blinky components, with our...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #6: See the RGB!
It’s day #6 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today is another blinky day and it's time to go multicolour with addressable RGB LEDs! The chunky LEDs in today's box...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #5: Switch the DIP!
It’s day #5 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today we're using a new control component - things that we/our environment can interact with to trigger our code, which can...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #4: Brilliant Bar Graphs!
It’s day #4 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Today you'll find a new blinky component - one of our favourites in fact - a bar graph display. Whilst essentially it's...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #3: Incredible Inputs!
It’s day #3 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Yesterday we got familiar with creating circuits with outputs (using our LED) and using that circuit with code. Today...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #2: Lighting LEDs!
It’s day #2 of the Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar! Yesterday we got comfortable with the Pico and learnt about its different features, including some sample code and the...
Let it Glow Maker Advent Calendar Day #1: Let's Get Started!
Welcome to day #1 of Let it Glow – your 12-day maker advent calendar packed with blinky stuff and other components to control your blinky things with! Everyone’s welcome here – absolute...
Coding the Waveshare RP2040 Matrix
The Waveshare RP2040 Matrix development board is an inexpensive, super-compact RP2040 microcontroller with a tiny 5x5 addressable RGB LED matrix on the front. This tiny development board is packed with...
MicroPython Skill Builders - #6 Temperature & Humidity Sensors
Welcome to another instalment in our MicroPython Skill Builders series by Tony Goodhew, aiming to improve your coding skills with MicroPython whilst introducing new components and coding techniques - using a Raspberry...
