New Toy!

This is the new Raspberry Pi 500+. With keyboard lighting!

Thankfully, it’s completely configurable: you can have any colour and brightness, light up just the key pressed, have a “heat map” effect … you can even turn it off 🙂 And for fun, you can play a (very difficult) “Flappy Birds”-type game just using the keyboard and its lights.
The keyboard itself is really good, with mechanical keys. Just like the old BBC Micro.
When he can tear himself away from his new toy, A1 is reading Stone & Sky by Ben Aaronovitch. A2 is reading The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown, a readable fantasy about magic books that, for the purpose of the plot, can be used for good or evil.

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