Spotted this one in amongst all the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Apollo Moon Landings. Richard Hayler purchased the LEGO Lunar Lander set and built it up. He decided that he wanted a permanent enclosure to display it in and…
Richard Hayler recently acquired a new pet snake which he’s called The Kernel. The Kernel is housed inside a tank and Richard wanted to monitor the temperature and humidity of the environment. So, he used a DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensor (like…
Richard Hayler likes to keep fit but his recent job change has meant that he unable to get to fitness sessions with an instructor. He now exercises in his back garden but wanted some way of having a visible and…
Recently, the Maketronix Alarm kit was fully-funded on IndieGoGo. It is an add-on board and sensor for the Raspberry Pi that allows you to put together your own movement-activated alarm system. It comes with educational material that can be used…
Richard Hayler, his sons and Nic Hughes launched the first Surrey-based Raspberry Pi HAB flight last Thursday. They took pictures on the Pi from almost 35km high: and was successfully recovered from a churchyard in Itchen Abbas: You can read…
Recently, NatureBytes have managed to fulfil their Kickstarter rewards. This means a lot of units (like the one pictured below) in the hands of users. The system comes with a Raspberry Pi A+ and, because of the lower-spec nature of…
Richard Hayler and his children spoke at the Big Birthday Weekend about their AstroPi project – how it was developed and the story of how their code ended up in Space! Their experiment, which uses the SenseHAT’s built-in humidity sensor to…
Richard Hayler has written an excellent tutorial on using this new add-on board from Pimoroni. You basically connect to the pHAT using minicom and then send old-style AT commands like you would with an old modem. He hasn’t quite gone…
Richard Hayler loves doing stuff with the SenseHAT, especially with the 8×8 matrix. This time, he’s coded an advent calendar using the matrix for display and the joystick for control. Take a look at his blog for more information. A…
Richard Hayler has a bunch of original Raspberry Pi Model Bs and accompanying 4GB SD cards. Rather than just throw these away and get new 8GB cards to fit the whopping 4.3GB Jessie image on, he decided to slim down…
