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How to render your own images on the Pimoroni Pico Display Pack and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

We have children in the family learning both English and Cantonese simultaneously, a great way to help support this will be to show them films that they will love in their mother tongue, and what better films to show children but films by Studio Ghibli? But here’s the problem: Studio Ghibli films are in Japanese (naturally), but fortunately they’ve been translated into many languages and distributed world wide. Even better, they’re now even available on Netflix....

We had a request to get something printing on our 3D printer as a demonstration for an event a few weeks back, and separately had a request to print a lamp shade for another project. I’d been wanting to print the amazingly detailed 3D moon available on Thingiverse for a while, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do a small test print before committing to a day long full size print....

Building an interactive glowing dragon egg prop.

This year, I wanted to build a connected Christmas Ornament for each of my family members. The aim was to build a light that looked nice, but also allowed us to feel connected even if we weren’t together..

Modifying a Fujifilm Instax SP-2 Printer so that it can be powered on and off by a Raspberry Pi.

A new Python API and Command line tool that lets you print photos from your computer, using the Fujifilm Instax SP-2

In this post, I built a physical status display using a Pimoroni Inky pHAT, MQTT, Python and Javascript

In this post, I take a minimalistic Cuckoo clock and for better or for worse connect it to the internet.

I’ve had an idea for a while now about building an internet connected photo printer that automatically prints photos for me at home as a when I take them on my phone. I had originally thought about getting hold of a Polaroid Zip that would print Instant photos. However from looking online it seemed to have a few drawbacks that I didn’t fancy. It didn’t have the classic ‘Polaroid Border’ It was Bluetooth which would most likely be a pain to hack....