During the first COVID lockdown, stuck at home, bored, I had a silly idea: could I use the insertion of a floppy disk as a trigger to control something from a Raspberry Pi... bennuttall.com/blog/2026/08...

Floppy LED

During the first COVID lockdown, stuck at home, bored, I had a silly idea: could I use the insertion of a floppy disk as a trigger to control something from a Raspberry Pi? I bought a sleek USB floppy...

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Works great!

New project! I had this idea 10 years ago and finally technology has caught up enough for it to become a reality without me learning React. Presenting gpiozero flow, an experimental thing. Simulate electronics projects in the browser, and run them remotely on a Pi bennuttall.com/blog/2026/07...

gpiozero flow

Back in 2015, I had the idea for gpiozero — a Python library for Raspberry Pi, making programming GPIO devices simpler by abstraction: instead of thinking about pin channels, voltages, pull-up resisto...

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We recently rolled out support for PEP-658 - including metadata files in our package index, making piwheels more efficient and effective for Raspberry Pi users. Here's a blog post about how we implemented it and cautiously rolled it out: blog.piwheels.org/2026/05/pep-...

Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game bennuttall.com/blog/2026/04...

A blog post about a recent kayaking weekend trip in Glen Etive

Glen Etive

I realised I hadn't blogged anything outdoorsy for an awfully long time. I used to occasionally post about travels and adventures, or my kayaking in general, but I guess I haven't done anything blogwo...

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Think you know your snooker players? I made a quiz: files.bennuttall.com/snooker.html

I did an update to my 2021 PyPI stats post for the piwheels blog. Here's the 2026 edition: blog.piwheels.org/2026/03/pypi...

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Flags don’t mean what they used to just months ago. I’ve written about how I think the same is happening to the poppy. One thing I noticed today on that topic: so many people are wearing poppies that look nothing like the various ones the Royal British Legion sells…

First the flag. Now the poppy

A sombre display of remembrance is being weaponised and policed by nationalists

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I see Twitter's going well

Occasionally ChatGPT will title a chat in another language, for no apparent reason...

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