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Family days out Swing ride at The Big Sheep

Family days out children friendly narrow guage railways

Family days out rowing boats on Derwent Water

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Raspberry Pi controlled Christmas Lighting including NeoPixels and RGB Matrix LED display

This video explains about the Christmas lighting display I have at my house and how it's controlled using 3 Raspberry Pi computers. Two of these are automated, but one does require manual intervention to turn it on and off. There ...

micro:bit v2 - New version of the educational coding tool

The micro:bit version 2 is now available. This is a significant upgrade on the original micro:bit with a better processor, more memory, a speaker, microphone, touch sensitive area and more.What is a micro:bitThe Micro:bit (or sometimes referred to as microbit) ...

Creating 2D Animations using Blender 2.8 and Blender 2.9

Blender is well known as a 3D modelling tool, but it is also good for creating 2D animations. It includes the ability to create timeline based animations using Keyframes with automatic tweening and fine control over all the objects.If you ...

Kdenlive - editing videos using a professional free open source non-linear video editor

Kdenlive is a free open source non-linear video editor. I used to regularly use Kdenlive for editing my videos, but I switched to a commercial mid-price video editor a couple of years ago. This is because I found Kdenlive to ...

ESA European Astro Pi Project - Mission Zero - Code that ran on the International Space Station

The ESA European Astro Pi Project - "Mission Zero", involved school children creating code that actually ran on the International Space Station (ISS). My son joined with a friend (both aged 9 at the time it was submitted) to create ...

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