The latest microcontroller on the market is the RP2040 in the form of the Raspberry Pico board - a compact SoC with many I/O pin configurations and great documentation – as we’ve come to expect from Raspberry! Getting compiling for this up and running is simple and I’ve made it even easier for Arch …

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Tasty wholemeal alternative mince pies. They are VERY delicate while they are warm especially if you have used butter. Best eaten warm with a sprinkling of icing sugar on the top!

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One of the features of our smart home is when the doorbell on our house is rung or a letter is posted, a snapshot is taken by a security camera pointed to our front door. The snapshot is then sent to a neural network to identify if it’s the post or not. If it is then house will announce this to us, which is handy …

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With the emergence of dynamic ‘time of use’ electricity tariffs like Octopus Agile - where the unit price you pay every half hour is tied to wholesale prices and varies throughout the day - there’s the opportunity to charge power hungry devices like electric cars to take advantage of really cheap (and …

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I originally got this recipe from Pizza pilgrims, a great restaurant chain in London. It’s the best results I’ve got at home for matching the sheer heat of a proper pizza oven to produce proper crispy thin based Italian pizzas. No thick crust here. Take care with the hot frying pan - it’s really easy …

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Flammkuchen, flam-kuche, Flàmmeküeche lit. “flame cake” - many spellings, but all delicious - this is a German dish from the Baden/Alsace border region borrowed from the French (tarte flambée) borrowed from the Italians (pizza). As a variation you can swap the creme for salsa and tomato to make something …

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