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@datagod

Datagod

@datagod

I tell computers what to do. Sometimes they listen.

Subarctica, CanadaJoined September 2021

About

I started programming when I was 11. Microsoft Basic on a TRS-80 computer.

Moved on to learn Pacal, C, C++, Cobol, SQL, PHP, Powershell, Python.

Been coding for 40 years and loving it.

Available for

I am available for virtual coffee, answering questions about SQL Server, LED displays and Raspberry Pi computers.

Datagod's blogs

This Old Coderdatagod.hashnode.dev15 posts

About

I started programming when I was 11. Microsoft Basic on a TRS-80 computer.

Moved on to learn Pacal, C, C++, Cobol, SQL, PHP, Powershell, Python.

Been coding for 40 years and loving it.

Available for

I am available for virtual coffee, answering questions about SQL Server, LED displays and Raspberry Pi computers.

Datagod's blogs

This Old Coderdatagod.hashnode.dev15 posts

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DDatagodindatagod.hashnode.dev·Oct 14, 2021 · 1 min read

Animated Sprites - Time to brag

I spent a few hours last night using LEDarcade to draw an animated sprite that harkens back to my childhood: Intellivision Running Man. I have a longer article in the works to describe how I did all this in python. But for now, here is a small tease...

DDatagodindatagod.hashnode.dev·Oct 8, 2021 · 2 min read

LEDarcade: upping your LED game

If you have an Adafruit LED matrix, like many people you may have ran the demos then put it in a drawer. Or maybe you were a little more ambitious and loaded a project that requires the display. You may have even decided to start drawing graphics an...

DDatagodindatagod.hashnode.dev·Oct 6, 2021 · 1 min read

Display system info with Neofetch

If you want a quick way to display your Raspberry Pi system information, try using Neofetch. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch There are an abundance of command line options, but just issuing the command all by itself produces a decent amount of...

DDatagodindatagod.hashnode.dev·Oct 6, 2021 · 1 min read

Extend the life of your SD card on a Raspberry Pi

MicroSD cards have a limited lifespan. The more you write to them, the greater the chance of failure. Thankfully this chance is incredibly small, and the whole card can be written thousands of times between failure (depending on the make and qualit...

DDatagodindatagod.hashnode.dev·Sep 30, 2021 · 1 min read

Programming LED displays on a Raspberry Pi

I have spent a good chunk of my "hobby time" programming displays for Raspberry Pi computers. This series will explore the various LED displays available from Pimoroni and Adafruit and how to display images and light effects on these amazing displays...