2026 and onwards landing page

The definitive landing page

Since 2013 I've been documenting projects exploring computing education, physical computing, Minecraft, Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and, more recently, AI. This page brings everything together in one place.

Micro:bit City

This is the current direction of the LEGO and micro:bit projects: building connected, programmable projects and gradually turning them into a Micro:bit City.

• New Micro:bit Motor Control 2.0 – no more sacrificing motor connectors

• Creating a LEGO motor connector to use with Micro:bit and motor controllers

• Micro:bit Express 3.0 – all the bells and whistles

• Tilting controller for Micro:bit Express

Raspberry Pi

• Why I got into Raspberry Pi

• GPIO Zero Minecraft – Whack on-board LEDs

• Sense Hat Pixel Art V1

• Experiments with GPIOTriggers / switches

• The Pi 5

• How to get Minecraft Pi working on a Pi 5

Micro:bit

• Micro:bit and Minecraft Traffic Lights

• UCreate with a Micro:bit and Neo Pixels

• UCreate – Moody Storm Trooper

• UCreate – Neon Axe

• UCreate – Radio Activated Lights V1

• UCreate – Micro:bit and Raspberry Pi / Minecraft TNT Roulette

• UCreate – Minecraft Random Serial Bounce

• UCreate – Minecraft Random Radio Bounce

• CPC UCreate Micro:bit Resources – all in one place

• Micro:bit and Neo Pixel Strip / CodeBug Colour Star

BitIO

• Micro:bit with Minecraft – project overview

• BitIO Blog 1 – Getting Started

• BitIO Blog 2 – Walking Rainbow Blocks

• BitIO Blog 3 – Tilting Rainbow Road

• BitIO Blog 4 – Tilt Me Around the World

• BitIO Blog 5 – Touching Pins

• BitIO Blog 6 – Touching Pins Takes You Places

• BitIO Blog 7 – Minecraft CPU Temperature Graphing

• BitIO Blog 8 – Accelerometer in Space

• BitIO Blog 9 – PixelCraft

• BitIO Blog 10 – Micro:bit Transport

• BitIO Blog 11 – PixelCraft 2.0

• BitIO Blog 12 – Pixel Cakes

• BitIO Blog 13 – Push Button Racing

• BitIO Blog 14 – Scalable Housing

• BitIO Blog 15 – EduBlocks BitIO

• Scratchy:bit IO – Getting Started

LEGO + Code

• Using micro:bits to control LEGO – tutorials overview

• Blog 1 – Lights On

• Blog 2 – The Micro:bit Express V1

• Blog 2a – EduBlocks Micro:bit Express V1

• Blog 2b – EduBlocks Micro:bit Express V1.5 Remote Controlled

• Blog 3 – Micro:bit Express 2.0 Adjustable Speed

• Blog 4 – The Raspberry Express

• Blog 5 – Micro:bit Controlled LEGO Ferris Wheel

• Blog 6 – Raspberry Pi Powered LEGO Ferris Wheel

• Blog 7 – 3D Printed LEGO Christmas Tree

• Blog 8 – LEGO RC Car with Raspberry Pi

• Blog 9 – Blocks Controlling Blocks

• Blog 10 – Raspberry Pi Zero Express

• Blog 11 – Stop Frame Animation with LEGO

• Blog 12 – Micro:bit Controlled Rollercoaster

• Micro:bit Express 3.0

• Micro:bit Express 3.5 – Controlling Multiple Trains

• Revisiting the Micro:bit Express

Minecraft

• MineGraph – Visualising Data in Minecraft

• Micro:bit and Minecraft Traffic Lights

• Whack a Block – Triggering Events in Minecraft

• Rainbow Spiral using Minecraft Turtle

• Visualising Temperature Data in Minecraft

• #Hackpack Minecraft Resources

• The Tweeting Selfie Machine

• Minecraft #Hackpack Anthology Volume 2

• Minecraft 8×8 Pixel Art Wall

• 24 Hours Tracking the ISS in Minecraft

• 25 Hacks of Minecraft – Christmas 2018

• 25 Hacks of Christmas 2020

• Exabytes 2019 – Minecraft and Micro:bits

Minecraft Education

Command Blocks

• Blog 1 – My First Command Block

• Blog 2 – Summon Ed

• Blog 3 – Give Inventory and Changing Weather

MakeCode

• MakeCode Blog 1 – Getting Started

• MakeCode Blog 2 – Get Coding

• MakeCode Blog 3 – Rainbow Road

• MakeCode Blog 4 – Wool Wall

• MakeCode Blog 5 – Vertical Farming

• MakeCode Blog 6 – My First Mini Game

Minecraft Java Edition

• Getting Started with Coding Minecraft Java Edition

• My First Program

• Minecraft Java Edition – Experiments with Code

• Whack a Block

• Walking Random Blocks

• Force Field

• Rainbow Road

AI + Computing Education

• Craig and Dave flipped learning questions

• Experiments with AI – overview

• Experiments with AI – Recall Quizzes

EduBlocks

• Getting Started on Raspberry Pi

• EduBlocks – Walking Blocks with Minecraft

• EduBlocks Blog 3 – Minecraft Update: Pixel Art

• Liverpool Makefest – Minecraft Pixel Art

• Exabytes 17 Workshops

• EduBlocks – 1,2,3 Coding Cards

• EduBlocks + BitIO – Hello Micro:bit, Hello Minecraft

Raspberry Jams

• Eagle Labs Raspberry Jam

• Leamington Raspberry Jam

• Raspberry Jam Resources in a Zip File

• Minecraft Raspberry Jam

• Leamington Raspberry Jam 2.0

• Coventry and Warwickshire Jam '21 – Stop Frame LEGO Animations

Scratch

• L1 – Input, Process, Output

• L2 – Variables, Conditionals and Operators

• Big Red Button

• L4 – Message Passing

• L5 – Lists

Three older links from the original landing page have been left out because the live Blogger page currently points to broken or malformed addresses.