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Cloud Computing Part 5: SaaS (Software as a Service)

Cloud computing Part 1 – Local Application vs Web Application Cloud Computing Part 2 – Virtualization (Physical vs Virtual Servers) Cloud Computing Part 3: IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Cloud Computing Part 4: PaaS (Platform as a Service) This… Continue Reading →

2016/05/23

Raspberry Pi Camera Demo Video

I finally got round to uploading a video shot on my Raspberry Pi original model A using the official camera module. Although I created a guide to build a camera you can trigger by pressing a button, there is now… Continue Reading →

2016/05/22

Berry Bot

Recently I got the chance to give a bit of an introduction to python and physical computing on the Raspberry Pi to some kids so I thought a robot would be a fun thing to use as a demonstration. The… Continue Reading →

2016/05/08

Cloud Computing Part 2 – Virtualization (Physical vs Virtual Servers)

In part one we looked at the difference between running an application on a local machine compared to running it on a remote machine on the internet. The second major part of cloud computing, aside from running applications remotely, is… Continue Reading →

2016/04/30

Cloud computing Part 1 – Local Application vs Web Application

Cloud computing is one of those tech buzzwords that everyone is talking about but no one knows exactly what it is. Just take a tech product or website and stick cloud in front of it to be a winner. There’s… Continue Reading →

2016/03/25

Git Cheat Sheet

Setup and use a new online repo Sign in to github or bitbucket; start a new repository; add .gitignore (things to exclude such as your python virtualenv, config files with passwords etc), then follow the instructions to: Setup new online… Continue Reading →

2016/03/19

Weather Monitoring – Part 1 – with ThingSpeak and Slack

Weather Monitoring – Part 1 – This post Weather Monitoring – Part 2 – Air Quality sensing with Shinyei PPD42NS Where I live at the moment is very dry and after buying a humidifier I decided to use my… Continue Reading →

2016/03/12

Flask – An Introduction to python web apps

After discovering the python programming language from the Raspberry Pi, it turns out it can be used for many different purposes, one of these being to create web based apps. A web app is a website that actually does something… Continue Reading →

2016/03/05

Make a Next Bus LCD with TfL’s Web API

One of the cool things about web APIs (see my post for what a web API is) is that useful data is made available for you to hack around with. I found out that Transport for London has an API… Continue Reading →

2016/02/27

What is an web API and what can I do with it?

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and web APIs allow you to programmatically interface with a web resource using the HTTP protocol (the same as you use in your web browser). 1. Let’s explain that geek-speak with an example from… Continue Reading →

2016/02/20

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