Hannah Mills is holding another Peterborough Coding Evening on Wednesday, 20th July from 6-9pm. The event will be held in the back room of the Brewery Tap pub in Peterborough and you can get free tickets here. I’ll be there…
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Earthquake notifications with a Raspberry Pi
Russell Grokett has taken a Raspberry Pi and fed in data from the USGS (United States Geological Survey). He has then put a box around the Pi and added an LCD screen and some motors. When an earthquake is detected, the LCD…
Finish off your Raspberry Pi Game Boy Zero with this guide
Wermy, who created the Game Boy Zero, has been blogging a how-to guide that shows you how to create your very own device using an old Game Boy and various parts. He has now finished the guide and you can read…
Adding an OBD-II readout to your car with a Raspberry Pi
Ben Walters had a wish to add a dashboard read-out of his car’s OBD-II data. He took a Raspberry Pi and various other components, including a UPS HAT to provide backup power, and wired it into his car. The readout…
Add personality to your projects with the McRoboFace for the Raspberry Pi
Gareth over at 4tronix has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund McRoboFace: 17 bright (Neopixel-type) RGB LEDs in a “friendly face” formation. The board is controllable from a Raspberry Pi, Crumble, Arduino and other base boards. I’ve featured the…
WiFi Whisperer is a creepy use of the Raspberry Pi, but effective
Recently at Moogfest, which is a music and technology festival set in North Carolina, artists Kyle McDonald and Surya Mattu exhibited an installation piece known as the WiFI Whisperer. The Whisperer was connected to the festival’s wifi network and sniffed out…
Robot face conversation using Sonic Pi on a Raspberry Pi
Robin Newman, who managed to do far more with Sonic Pi than I ever could, has done it again. This time, he’s programmed Sonic Pi with some voice samples which sends commands, via a (pretty darned excellent) PiCon Zero controller board, to two 4tronix…
Giveaway to celebrate my Raspberry Pi Birthday
Or should that be Pirthday? Hmmm… Could be “a thing”… Maybe not… Four years ago today, I received my first Raspberry Pi! It’s been quite a journey since then. I started work on my first project in the first couple…
Birmingham Eagle Labs Raspberry Jam – 13th August
Chris Penn is organising a Raspberry Jam at the Birmingham Eagle Labs on 13th August. Running from 11am to 2pm, the event will feature show and tell, workshops and talks. The Labs is in the Innovation Birmingham Campus on Holt Street and…
Draw spider charts on your Raspberry Pi with Python
Albert has taken inspiration from a tweet by Sway Grantham in which she wanted to create spider charts (radar charts) automatically. So, Albert worked out a CSV file format that worked, created a blank chart and wrote a script to read in the…