@robmiles

Computer Science educator, technical author and Microsoft MVP. At least as much fun as it sounds. Into coding, robots, Internet of Things, poetry. And pinball.

 Hull, UK
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FreeCAD Mosaic Maker — robmiles.com

I’ve been playing around with Python programs in FreeCAD for a while. Today I did a bit of image processing. The little program I’ve built reads in an image, resizes it, reduces the colour depth to 4...

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Making a 130 Year Old Instant Camera — robmiles.com

The camera above was a very impressive gadget back in the 1890s. I got it at a camera fair in Boston Spa. It’s a quarter plate camera which takes pictures on glass slides. These are mounted inside a...

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Blog up to date — robmiles.com

Writing a blog post about having got my blog up to date does sound a bit meta. And is probably only of interest to me and ChatGPT, but here we are. I’m now properly determined to keep the blog up to...

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Minox Colour Photography — robmiles.com

I got the scans back from those splendid folks at MSHobbies . To say that the negatives are smaller than the nail on your little finger and colour film to boot, I reckon they look pretty splendid....

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Whitby Steam Rally Movie — robmiles.com

We’ve got our 8mm film back from processing and for a first attempt it doesn’t look too bad. What it lacks in definition I reckon it makes up in atmosphere.

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How not to organize an event... — robmiles.com

Hull CS50 was great, but I always write down a list of things that I might want to think about next time I help to run something like this: The Fisher Price Code a pillar is a great toy for kids and...

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Hull CS50 Three Thing Game Registration Open — robmiles.com

If you want to take part in Three Thing Game as part of our CS50 Anniversary celebrations you can now register here . You don’t have to come to Hull to take part, you will be able to pick your things...

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Hull CS50 T Shirts - and don't forget to register — robmiles.com

Our 50th Anniversary celebration is in two weeks. Time to think about some T shirts… I’ve created a poll in the Announcements thread on the Discord channel for the event. If you fancy a shirt to...

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In the latest issue of @TheMagPi, out today, we talk to David Miles, who designed a Raspberry Pi Pico kit to bring junked joysticks back to life. Read all about it 👉 raspberrypi.com/news/raspber…

Raspberry Pi Pico brings junked joysticks back to life | The MagPi #146 - Raspberry Pi

We talk to David Miles, who designed a Raspberry Pi Pico kit to bring junked joysticks back to life.

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Rabbit r1 Magic Camera — robmiles.com

Just found something that the Rabbit R1 can do which is really rather awesome. You can take a picture with it and shortly afterwards a “Rabbit Magic Camera” version appears in your Rabbit Hole site.

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Rob and the Rabbit R1 — robmiles.com

I mentioned to number one daughter that I’d got a Rabbit R1 . “But aren’t those supposed to be useless” she replied. Well yes. And no. She wasn’t surprised that I’d got one. All it took was one...

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Added a video showing off "The Exchange" : youtu.be/p6Ti9BQiqs0
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Making "The Exchange" - an AI you an ring up — robmiles.com

I hate it when things in a project go too well. It usually means that things are due to go not very well in a short while. I’ve got my Large Language Model running on a Pi 5 and I thought I’d use...

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Start your node.js applications when your Raspberry Pi boots — robmiles.com

If you’ve got an application (perhaps one that lives inside a red telephone) which you want to run when your machine boots there is a really good way to do this. You turn your application into a...

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Free Hull Pixelbots at March 20th Hardware Meetup — robmiles.com

Thanks to the generosity of “ Player Piano Ross ” we have some Hull Pixelbots to give away at the next Hardware Meetup at the Hull Makerspace at Central Library Hull. The meetup is on Wednesday 20th...

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HullCS50 Coaster — robmiles.com

If you fancy making your own drinks coaster to celebrate fifty years of Computer Science at Hul l I’ve put the design on the web site here . It will print directly on a Bambu device. I've put...

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Running a Large Language Model on a Raspberry Pi 5 — robmiles.com

I found this article which describes how you can get a something a bit like ChatGPT running on a Raspberry Pi. You need the latest Raspberry Pi 5, and it also needs the largest one with 8Gb of memory...

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I've posted the session slides from yesterday's ChatGPT talk. You can find out more here: robmiles.com/

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Teaching, technology, robotics, and photography

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DDD North@DDDNorth12 Feb 2024
Delighted to see so many people registering for #DDDNorth! Don't forget - it's free to attend, and the agenda looks great! Excellent speakers, excellent content. bit.ly/DDDNorth2024 Are you coming? #MVPBuzz #Community
Auditorium from a previous DDDNorth, full of attendees, speakers and helpers.

ALT Auditorium from a previous DDDNorth, full of attendees, speakers and helpers.

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Writing C# and Loving It — robmiles.com

I’m writing some C# for the first time in a while. And I love it. It’s code I wrote ten years ago, and it seems like yesterday. Visual Studio Code is a great place to work, but Visual Studio 2022...

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