It's January 2021 and the awesome folks over at Raspberry Pi have announced a new device, a micro controller called the Raspberry Pi Pico. The full details / news about the device can be found at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-silicon-pico-now-on-sale/ . I grabbed one from the excellent Pimoroni and with speedy delivery from Royal Mail it arrived over … Continue reading The Raspberry Pi Pico / Pimoroni Pico Display
Python is great for maths, and as home schooling continues here in the UK due to the Coronavirus lockdown I'm using the time to look at converting percentages (%) using Python. This is the second of my Maths and Python posts, with fractions being my first. I'm trying to include more f string usage in … Continue reading Percentages With Python
GeekTechV2 has started to learn about electronics and circuits. To assist with this we have got the BBC micro:bit (https://microbit.org) out and purchased a Discovery Kit (https://thepihut.com/collections/new-products-micro-bit-store/products/discovery-kit-for-the-bbc-micro-bit). With the two products GeekTechV2 can build circuits and program the micro:bit so that he can interact with them. GeekTechV2 is using a micro:bit version 1 as we … Continue reading BBC micro:bit Discovery Kit
It's October 2020 and time for the 7th Hacktoberfest. Between the 1st October and 31st October Hacktoberfest encourages anyone from developers, to students to those that just want to give Git a shot, to complete some Git pull requests and help out with public repositories on GitHub. I've not taken part in previous years but … Continue reading Hacktoberfest 2020
My blog posts on C++ so far have looked at the basic data types and arrays, structs, enums and unions. With this blog post I am going to look at the 3 steps used to compile C++ and a brief look at writing "Hello, World!" in C++. C++ is a compiled language, which means that … Continue reading Learning C++: Preprocessor, Compiler, Linker and “Hello, World!”
Less of a tech post and more of a fun post today to show that the GeekTechStuff cat (#CatsThatCode) has decided on a new den inside the recently built desk drawers. https://youtu.be/P0lYJb0Dgt8 Don't worry it will be back to the regular posts after this, just thought it would be nice to share a fun moment … Continue reading New Drawers Or Cat’s New Den?
With the UK (and the world) fighting the Corona virus a lot of people are social distancing or isolating, and UK schools are closing. This may leave you with time to learn, or may leave you stuck looking for something for young people to do. I thought I would try to help out with some … Continue reading Geek Things To Do In Isolation
More of a personal post as I get to grips with Registers / General Purpose Registers (GPR) and start making notes. The 8 GPR have existed since the 8-bit Intel x86 processor, and they can be viewed using a debugged such as GDB. After the 16-bit era, the 32-bit era added an e (for extended) … Continue reading Registers / General Purpose Registers (GPR)
Whilst growing up I had (and still have) many geeky hobbies, but one I never got into was stamp collecting. Recently though I saw some stamps and decided to visit Royal Mail's special stamp site (https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues) to pick them up as a gift. They've arrived and, as a geek and a retro gamer, I decided … Continue reading Royal Mail Video Game Stamps
With the November Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals flying about some readers may be tempted to pick up an Amazon Alexa. So today I thought I would post a brief article on some of the easter egg type voice commands that you may like, after all Alexa can do more than tell you what … Continue reading Amazon Alexa Commands
