Mike: Here’s a guest post from my friend David Booth who you can find on Twitter here and on the web here. This is a great project for the current times we live in (because of the high probability of…
Kristian Tysse loves the show Stargate SG:1 (he has good taste!). On that show, teams of “off-world” explorers use a device called the Stargate to travel to other planets, some of which are similar to our own, some of which…
Here’s a lovely Harry Potter-related project from someone who prefers to be anonymous but whose handle is “RandomString”. It’s a Weasley location clock built into a grandfather clock. The whole system uses Home Assistant which is a piece of software…
Ryan Walmsley has just launched a Kickstarter for the SnowPi: a lovely little Christmas-themed add-on for the Raspberry Pi and an adapter to make it work with the micro:bit. The pre-assembled board is in the shape of a Snowman and…
Neil Lambeth, of Red Robotics has recently released his first motor controller board for the Raspberry Pi. “Oh, not another one!” I hear you cry… Well, hold up there – this is one to pay attention to and it’s not…
Prague-based UUGear have released a new version of their Witty Pi board for the Raspberry Pi. It is a power management board that can accept battery sources (via a XH2.54 connector) of up to 26V (although anything higher than 8V…
My last post was to announce Alex Eames’ latest crowdfunding project, the Breadboard Pi Bridge. Now that the dust has settled slightly from Pi Wars 2019, I’ve had a chance to have a play with it, so I’ll give you…
Alex Eames, from RasPiO, has just launched his latest crowdfunding campaign over on his website. He is hoping to fund the Breadboard Pi Bridge which is an easy way to bridge the gap between a Raspberry Pi and a breadboard,…
Pierre-yves Baloche has done a great write-up of his current project. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi and Pi TV HAT and created a TV recorder. He’s used a WD Pi-Drive and a spare Pi Zero case to house the HAT,…
Ben Nuttall over at Raspberry Pi has announced the release of GPIO Zero 1.5. This is a significant release and includes several enhancements. Improvements to the DistanceSensor class giving more accurate and reliable readings. Improvements to the source/value functionality meaning…