Way back in September last year, I covered a story on Cambridge Consultants, the Zoological Society of London, and their use of the Raspberry Pi in conservation and preservation in Kenya. Since January this year, they have used the same…
Category: Geeky Techiness
Mirror, Mirror on the #RaspberryPi
Michael Teeuw has created a rather stylish magic mirror effect with a Raspberry Pi. You have to read how he did it to believe it – it’s a fantastic project. He’s done a complete tutorial on how he did it…
Student aims to run his #RaspberryPi from a hydrogen fuel cell
Timo Kurz is currently working with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany to develop the RaspberryHy, a hydrogen fuel cell driven power source for the Raspberry Pi. He seems to have got quite a long way with it, even developing an…
Learn to play the piano with a #RaspberryPi
Shane Snipe, and his dad, have built a system to teach you how to play the piano and they’ve used a Raspberry Pi to do it. They’ve rigged up a series of servos which control some laser pointers which then…
Monitor your plants with PlantPi – #RaspberryPi and #Arduino working together
A group of year 11 students from Frome College have entered (and won one of the prizes) the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi inventions contest. Jake Malley, Gabriel Barnes and Alex Osbourne have linked together a Raspberry Pi and an ATMega328P-PU…
Star Trek LCARS on a #RaspberryPi
YouTube channel owner boltszmann138 has created a Trekker’s dream come true – an LCARS interface running a Raspberry Pi. There’s lots of technical detail on his YouTube video page and he hopes to eventually publish his code open source-style so…
Doctor Who fan starts creating a K9 with a #RaspberryPi
Image copyright BBC. No infringement intended. Doctor Who fan William Reichardt decided that he wanted to do an electronics project that would bring together a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Being the Whovian he is he decided to recreate the Doctor’s…
Pinewood Derby race track with the #RaspberryPi
Over at Make they’re doing a Raspberry Pi birthday series of articles, so I thought I’d bring them to the attention of my blog readers. The first one is from a guy called Ryan Slaugh. He’s used a Pi and…
VideoCore IV graphics core documentation and complete stack source to be released for the #RaspberryPi
I’m not really the best person to ask about the Pi’s GPU (in fact, ask me nothing as that’s what I know) but it’s big news that Broadcom has announced that the VideoCore IV graphics core has been completely documented…
Mission Control desk is powered by a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Jeff Highsmith has solved the problem of needing to obtain a desk on which his son can do his homework – and with some style. By using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino together, he has created a Mission Control…