Nine year old Arnav Sharma is the 2016 Tech4Good Winner of Winners and the holder of the People’s Award following a ceremony at the BT Centre. He won the prizes for his AsthmaPi Kit, a device to help parents of asthma…
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Potton Pi & Pints – 20th August – Raspberry Jam in a pub! – Bedfordshire #rjam
The next Potton Pi & Pints will take place on 20th August at The Rising Sun pub in Potton, Bedfordshire. This is an informal Raspberry Jam held upstairs at the pub, which is near the Cambridgeshire border. We bring along…
Review of the RoboHAT for the Raspberry Pi by MagPi magazine
The MagPi has published its review of the 4tronix RoboHAT online. The amazingly positive review of this great HAT previously appeared in the print version and you can read it here. I reviewed the RoboHAT a couple of months ago and you…
Build a spectrum analyzer with two Pimoroni pHATs and a Raspberry Pi Zero
Sandy Macdonald, one of the Pimoroni crew, has written an excellent tutorial in which he takes a pHAT DAC audio board, a Scroll pHAT and a Raspberry Pi Zero, solders them together and creates a visual spectrum analyzer. Python is used…
Raspberry Pi controlled coffee roaster from a popcorn popper
Mark Sanders took a popcorn popping machine and converted it for use as a coffee bean roaster. However, he needed to slow the roasting cycle down a bit for the optimum taste sensation. So, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi…
Electronics for Kids – book review
Wiley sent me this book as well as Adventures in Coding. I’m free to give an honest opinion. Introduction Electronics for Kids is a rather nice full-colour publication by Cathleen Shamieh. It seeks to give kids (or beginner adults) an…
Latest Pi Podcast is out – includes interview with Raspberry Pi’s Oliver Quinlan
The boys from the Pi Podcast have just published their latest episode. This one features an interview with the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Senior Research Manager Oliver Quinlan along with the usual news and views. Listen to it now.
Ben Nuttall’s top 10 add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
I don’t normally feature this kind of ‘list’, but it’s Ben Nuttall from the Foundation and I really appreciate his opinion. He’s picked his top 10 favourite add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi and published it over at opensource.com. Take…
Adventures in Coding – book review
Another interesting release from Wiley. I’ve been sent this and another book to review, but I’m free to give an honest opinion. Introduction Adventures in Coding by Eva Holland and Chris Minnick is another in the series of “Adventures” books…
Raspberry Pi Zero with accelerometer and tiny, tiny screen
Jeremy Lee has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and connected up an accelerometer sensor. He’s then written a driver to allow the sensor to act as a mouse and then recorded himself looking around a Minecraft world that is displayed…