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PyConES @es.pycon.org · 27/09/2026

Ven a ver a Carlos Pereira Atencio y su charla "Python Meets Hardware: The Missing Survival Guide" en #PyConES26 🎟️ ¡Entradas disponibles!

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A really cool GitHub feature was that going to a repo and pressing `.` on your ⌨️ would open it in a web version VS Code, hosted on github.dev Has anybody noticed they've removed that instance and now it redirects to vscode.dev? I've looked around and couldn't find anything about it, I wonder if...

Screenshot of GitHub repository and another of the VS Code web editor connected by a keyboard key, illustrating that pressing . opens the repository in github.dev

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PyConES @es.pycon.org · 09/07/2026

🎉 The #PyConES2026 program is now available! Talks, workshops and keynotes await you in Barcelona. Take a look and start planning your schedule! 🐍 🔗 2026.es.pycon.org/es/programa #PyConES #Python

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Consulta el cronograma completo de charlas, talleres y actividades de la PyConES 2026.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I have a new page for SPOKE that allows you to edit the circuitpython code on the board directly from the browser. With a bunch of templates for different modes and tools like a scale-builder that lets you choose exactly what midi note is mapped to each pin. tom-vulpes.github.io/SpokeWebMidi...

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I love using GitHub Pages for my projects' docs 📚 So I've dusted off my Jekyll Read the Docs theme port, and added a bunch of useful stuff: admonitions, Mermaid diagrams, better GH Pages integration and more ✨ Hopefully others find it useful too! carlosperate.github.io/jekyll-theme...

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Read The Docs Theme for Jekyll & GitHub Pages - Read The Docs Jekyll Theme

Port of the Read the Docs theme to Jekyll to use with GitHub Pages.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Really enjoyed this blog post + video 📺 from @forwardedu.bsky.social comparing several 3D-printed micro:bit holders. A fantastic side-by-side look at different design choices and trade-offs. Definitey worth a watch!

A screenshot of a video. A hand holding a micro:bit tray with multiple micro:bits. In the background there is a table with other micro:bit holders.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This is absolutely ridiculous, can’t access my own website (behind Cloudflare) from Spain because there’s a futbol match on: hayahora.futbol

hayahora.futbol

¿Hay ahora fútbol?

Real-time monitoring of LaLiga's IP blocks affecting Spanish internet users.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Been cleaning my terminal history from misspells, only to discover how much git status humbles me every day 😅. Here are some of my greatest hits: git staatus git statuss git statsu git stauts git stataus 📺 Tune in next to find out how much I can mess up just the word “git.”

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Remember when laptops used to be serviceable?

A picture of an open laptop with removable battery, hard drive, RAM, wireless module, etc

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Not the first #KiCad PCB edge USB‑C footprint, but it’s awesome that this one comes with testing & documentation of contact wear, latch wear, bend & break, and thermals 🤩 Love seeing this data shared with the design. github.com/AnasMalas/pc...

Close up of the worn out connector after multiple insertions.

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Micro:bit Educational Foundation @microbit.org · 07/10/2025

📣 We’re hiring! Join the Micro:bit Educational Foundation as an Embedded Software Engineer and help create open, inclusive tech that inspires young people to learn and code 💡 🔗 Apply or share: apply.workable.com/micro-bit-ed... #Hiring #Edtech #SoftwareEngineer

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The original Arduino IDE was a game changer for makers, educators, and hobbyists. But did you know it was a fork of a fork?🍴 Not only that, but other companies later forked it as well to tweak it for their own needs! Have you seen or used these other versions? 👇🧵

A screenshot of the legacy Arduino IDE with a blinky example project.

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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Made a thing that makes me happy (how sad): an old RaspberryPi with a small screen and a serial console used as a terminal for smolBASIC (My First Text-based Language) that is running ON THE micro:bit! SmolBASIC is itself written in Python and can be extended by older children.

A BBC micro:bit showing a ghost icon. A USB keyboard. A small LCD display showing a program being entered, run on the micro:bit and listed. The program is:
duck
star
ghost
happy

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Oh man, I really REALLY wanted to be all in, but $225 + shipping, taxes, and import duties for an nRF52840 watch is a tough sell for me. Was also hoping the Time would at least look less like a fitness tracker, loved the original Time 2 look 🫤 Still incredibly exited that the Pebble is back! ⌚️🥳

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨Our Generative AI Lab at Wharton is releasing its first Prompt Engineering Report, empirically testing prompting approaches. We find: 1) Prompting “tricks” like saying “please” do not help consistently or predictably 2) How you test against benchmarks matters a lot papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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v.s.h. @vsh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

ViperIDE v0.5.2 is out: viper-ide.org #MicroPython #WebIDE

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

@juanlu.space Esto va a ser poco random, pero he estado mirando cosas de Python packaging con extra index URLs, y cada vez que busco algo en Google termino en un hilo creado por ti o donde respondes con info útil. Asi que tan solo quería darte las gracias! 😃

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm working on wrapping the arm-none-eabi-gcc toolchain into a Python Package 📦🐍 for easy distribution and installation. Does anybody have any suggestions of an embedded project with complex build steps to test it? Or that uses as many of the toolchain executables as possible?

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I pulled the trigger and launched the kickstarter for SPOKE this morning. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom... If you like it, consider supporting it or sending it to friends who might!

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Been working with Intel Hex files & these are a couple of online tools I often use, in case you find them useful too! 1️⃣ www.fischl.de/hex_checksum... Useful to manually modify Intel Hex records. 2️⃣ nordicsemiconductor.github.io/nrf-intel-he... Quickly visualise & check memory regions a hex covers.

A screenshot of an online tool with a text box to input an Intel Hex record, and a box below analysing it and showing any errors with the record.

A screenshot of an online tool showing a memory map of all the memory regions the Intel Hex file contains.

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Tonya Coats @teachercoats.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

go.bsky.app/93bgdee

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is fantastic news for all Pebble fans out there! 🤩 Thanks @ericmigi.com and Google folks for making his happen!

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you’d like to get the latest BBC micro:bit posts on your home page, I’ve created a dedicated 🦋 feed just for that! 📢🌐 Follow it to stay updated and see what the #microbit community is sharing 🌟 bsky.app/profile/carl...

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GeekyNicki @geekynicki.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#micro:bit controlled Ferdinand the Furby has been giving me the stink-eye recently! I don't think he's impressed that Omnibot has had all the attention lately while he's left feeling exposed!

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is a musical USB-MIDI Bonsai tree. Each branch is a touch sensor made from insulated garden wire that triggers a sequence of MIDI notes. It was made using the SPOKE hardware that I'm Kickstarting. Sign up for updates here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This is excellent news! 🎉 For any project targetting arm64/aarch64 testing in GH Actions required to either have a custom runner on your own Arm server (or something a #RaspberryPi) or using an emulator like QEMU. So I've been looking forward to these native runners for a while! 😃

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Oh, look what I found rummaging through old drawers 🔎🗄️ Can anyone guess which #microbit board this is?

A green electronic board, which a red bluetooth module.
The silkscreen says "MKL26Z prog" and "nRF51 prog" next to unpopulated headers, "RESET" next to a button, and "CR2032" next to a battery holder.

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PyCon UK @pyconuk.org · 13/01/2025

New Year, New PyCon UK! We're excited to announce that PyCon UK 2025 will be held in Manchester from 19th to 22nd September 2025. Expect a full program of talks, workshops, and sprints for all Pythonistas. We look forward to seeing you there! #PyConUK2025 #PythonProgramming #Pythonista

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In line with my last post, I just saw a #MechanicalKeyboard that fits inside Altoids tins and it's just 🧑‍🍳😙🤌 www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKe...

A split mechanical keyboard, each part has 3x4 keys and fits inside an Altoids tin.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

It's been a while, but remember when Altoids tins were the goto project case for electronics? Even the BeagleBone was designed to fit inside! A bit of #maker nostalgia.

An Altoids tin, with a photoshopped cut away showing the corner of a BeagleBone inside.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I've finally ported the Awesome micro:bit bot 🤖 to Bluesky!🦋 It automatically shares the latest entries from the Awesome #micro:bit list! So make sure to follow @awesomemicrobit.bsky.social if you want to be up-to-date with the coolest micro:bit projects, lessons & resources 🌟 #EduSky #EdTech #STEM

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Cecilia Hillway @ceciliahillway.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! I hope Santa made his way to your homes without crashing as much as the one I made did. Made with a couple of MakeyBits.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’ve always been a fan of the Pebble, even wrote an app for my Pebble Time Steel! And to this day I still wish the beatiful Pebble Time 2 had seen the light of day. But I had no idea it was actually featured in Resident Evil 7?! At least it'll forever live on there! 🧟‍♂️⌚️ www.reddit.com/r/pebble/com...

A photo of the never-released Pebble Time 2.

A render from the videogame Resident Evil 7, showing the never released Pebble Time 2.

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Jonny Austin @jonnya.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

10 million micro:bits is a nice number of micro:bits 🎉🌏 🔗 microbit.org/news/2024-12... has great stats on impact and goals for @microbit.org Cheers to the awesome people and partners who have got us off to this excellent start. 🚀

microbit.org

Celebrating 10 million micro:bits around the world

Micro:bit Educational Foundation's 2024 highlights

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Did you notice? With the CreateAI launch, we’ve also released the micro:bit wearable! 🎉 I've been looking forward to this one as well, as you can now easily attach your #microbit to your wrist, ankle, or toys, or anywhere else! Perfect for motion, AI, and creative coding fun! 🌟 #EduSky #EdTech #STEM

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Researchers have found a way to turn off a webcam LED while in use. This is why it was so important during the #microbit design to ensure the mic🎙 LED was wired to its power instead of GPIO. It’s crucial to teach the next gen about privacy & security (or their absence) in the tech they use every day

A picture of the micro:bit microphone LED light up, indicating the microphone is operating.

A screenshot of the micro:bit schematics, showing the microphone circuit. It shows the microphone LED will always light up if the microphone is turned on.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It didn’t take long for @sparkfun.bsky.social to reach the peak number of (electronic) followers! ⚡🤖

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I love seeing projects like this, a collab between PrintLab, @loretod.bsky.social & Bill Siever, where the #microbit powers 3D printed, low-cost, replicable and extensible assistive technology 🌟 A perfect example of tech for good! 👏💡 www.zeroday.camp/empowering-a... #Accessibility #STEM #3DPrinting

Multiple 3D printed cases for the micro:bit to providle accessible button presses.

The micro:bit in a 3D printed case with big accessible buttons, connected to an iPad via Bluetooth.

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Still blown away that you can literally cut down a Wii PCB and end up with a fully functional tiny GameCube! 🤯 For reference, here’s what a full motherboard looks like before the dremmel:

A Wii motherboard with their parts labelled.

From the BitBuilt forum, posted by user Shank.
https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/wii-motherboard-anatomy-101.1286/

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Jonny Austin @jonnya.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I missed these when JLCPCB announced it - so as I'm late to the party, would love to see creative and beautiful PCBs people have made with it (or similar services) jlcpcb.com/blog/multi-c...

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Gadgetoid @gadgetoid.com · 22/11/2024

Not me only just connecting the dots that @carlosperate.bsky.social maintains arm-none-eabi-gcc-action 🤣

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Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My first day here on BlueSky & I’m thrilled to share something really exciting we’ve been working on! ✨ CreateAI ✨ A hands-on tool to explore and create AI with #microbit. Train ML models with movement data & bring them to life with code! 👉 Learn more: microbit.org/news/2024-11... #AI #ML #EdTech

An illustration for CreateAI.
Shows a pair of hands with data waves in the background to represent with motion data, and a micro:bit and MakeCode blocks to represent the AI/ML model running on the micro:bit with a MakeCode programme.
It includes the text: micro:bit Create AI, try our new machine learning tool
And the URL: createai.microbit.org

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