Brian Corteil 🤖

Maker, Amateur Robot Designer, Member of Cambridge Makespace and has a toy age of 8

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Building a @Raspberry_Pi Cyber Deck, first up is installing the monitor in the lid of the case. 10' screen from the @pimoroni pirates.

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

@CambridgeJam is have a Jam celebrating raspberry Pi 13th birthday at the Cambridge university computer on the 1st of March.

https://t.co/gY6TbbtSju

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Robot club at Makespace today 🤖
Everyone is welcome, you don't have to be an @cammakespace member to come.

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Well, it was definitely amplified music with rocks in it. :-) Good gig, played with passion! The Rills!

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First gig in about 20 years, I taken Tom to see The Rills in London.

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@cammakespace pumpkin, LEDs by @pimoroni Unicorn Hat kindly donated by the Pimoroni pirates , Pico W running the code.

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:-)

[Discworld @Discworld_com]

🎃🎃🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

We thought perhaps the opening lines of Terry's Wyrd Sisters will help set the mood...

"The wind howled 💨. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically⚡, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills ⛈.
The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye 🔥. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?”
There was a pause.
Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.”

— Wyrd Sister, Terry Pratchett

#HappyHalloween #Halloween #TerryPratchett #sirterrypratchett #TerryPratchettQuote

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Finally had a play with the @pimoroni Plasma 2350, lighting up Skully for Halloween 🎃👻 since I nick Skully's Plasma 2040 for another project. Seems a little overkill lol.

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Being able to make up custom leads is a Making super power!

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Designed and printed a support for the @Raspberry_Pi HQ/GS camera, it mounts on top of a full sized Pi using the fixing holes for a hat. In the other photo, you can see my frist amtept, tried to cut down the weight, a little to much. :-)

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

@recantha @pimoroni Have you zoom into photo, the can, has Raspberry Pi all over it. 😃

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I'm so excited about this 😀 https://t.co/blpnorwOej

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@ForrisHilier @pimoroni @CircuitPython it seen just as a strip, so you will need to do the conversion to matrix format

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

I visited the @pimoroni pirate's towers last week with my boys for a factory visit and was treated to discontinued products to take away to play with, plus more swag for local hackspaces and kids.
3 Original Unicorn hats being controlled with a Pico W :-)

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

@ForrisHilier @pimoroni @CircuitPython If you using just one the standard Neopixel library will work.

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@ForrisHilier @pimoroni I soldered some pins to the three headers next to the large IC. The Pico W is running @CircuitPython and using the adafruit_neopxl8 library. You can drive up to 8 strips at once from the Pico!

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@wkeenan No we went to Boscastle harbour instead

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

The once and future king

[Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi]

🚨 A new member joins the Raspberry Pi 5 family 🚨

With 2GB of RAM, and priced at just $50, this new entry-level product continues our mission to reduce the cost of high-performance general-purpose computing.

Read me: https://t.co/2WAJIC9Qh2

[Brian Corteil 🤖 @CannonFodder]

Holiday mode engaged.

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@Worlds6440 Talking to the staff, they were sent a 100, should ask how many were left.

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I picked up a new Pico 2 from the Cambridge Raspberry Pi store :-) looking forward to playing with soon