Richard Hayler has adapted one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s resources into a single-page worksheet (pictured above) for use at his Code Club. The project uses a marshmallow and a paper clip to create a button which can be detected using ScratchGPIO.…
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Raspberry Pi Wifi-Controlled Cat Laser Toy
PLEASE READ THE NOTES OF CAUTION BELOW I wasn’t going to feature this and then I thought I would with a note of caution. Here’s an Adafruit tutorial in which you construct a remotely-operated laser-pointer cat toy. The project provides…
Life simulator on the Raspberry Pi
Ferran Fabregas has taken Peter Onion’s LED panel driver software and created a ‘life simulator’ in which different coloured plants evolve and spread throughout a digital ecosystem and are then rendered onto an LED panel. You can see the code here…
Raspberry Pi Debug Clip – RyanTeck launches new Kickstarter
Ryan Walmsley from Stevenage, who produced the excellent RTK Motor Controller Board as well as a great value-for-money budget robotics kit, has just launched a new Kickstarter. It’s for a tiny board called the “Raspberry Pi Debug Clip“. The Debug…
Launched today: Flotilla from Pimoroni – easy hacking for the Raspberry Pi
It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
Machine learning with an engine and a Raspberry Pi
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time at the moment to fully understand this one! I’ll let Liz Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation explain: Adam Vaughan is controlling an engine with an adaptive Extreme Learning Machine algorithm on his Pi,…
Capacitive touch HAT for the Raspberry Pi
Adafruit have just made available to buy a new HAT add-on board. It has pads for up to 12 touch devices (you can use fruit!) and plugs nicely into the GPIO, just as any HAT should. You can read more and…
Home arcade experience with the Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell wanted an authentic arcade experience at home. So, he built a replica of the Street Fighter 2 control console and a metal dance mat and has now hooked up a Raspberry Pi using emulation software. The console and…
Use a Raspberry Pi and a cheap dongle to track aeroplanes
London-based Sopwith has taken a DVB-T dongle, plugged it into his Raspberry Pi and used software packages and scripts he has written himself to create an aeroplane tracker that plots onto a map. Read how to do it by viewing…
Raspberry Pi arcade game emulator in an Atari Lynx
David Hooker has taken an old Atari Lynx handheld computer, ripped the guts out of it and fitted a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other electronic components (an amplifier for instance). He’s installed Shea Silverman’s PiPlay and used one of…