WE had US visitors last weekend and the kids loved my Printrbot 3D printer. They had learned Tinkercad in school so that's what they used to create things and print them out. I noticed a 'Download to Minecraft' option and finally just had a chance to try it out. Wow!
Now that the Espruino Pico has (beta) HID support, it can pretend to be a keyboard or mouse (or other HID compatible device). This makes it possible to send characters to the active window on your Windows/Linux/Mac PC. I've cobbled together some code which turns the Pico into a device like a YubiKey. Press the button and get the latest auth code pasted automatically for you.
I swore I'd never use another Yahoo product after the cultural terrorism of their Geocities shutdown. Now one of their few bright lights of the past decade is biting the dust. However some very very smart person wrote some code two years ago which you may find useful. It converts your Pipes to Node.js apps.
I've been Snarky McSnarkenstein about Windows 10 IoT on Raspberry Pi but for Windows shops looking to get into Embedded (WinCE 1.0 eh?), this is a no-brainer.
