Robin Newman, who does some wonderful stuff with Sonic Pi amongst other things, recently received his RasPiO ProHAT experimenter’s kit and set himself a project. The project involved taking the components from the kit and adding a couple of capacitors and…
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What’s inside the fridge? Using a Raspberry Pi to take stock
Mike Moyer was tired of seeing Samsung commercials for the Family Hub refrigerator with the built-in camera and decided to make his own using a Raspberry Pi, a webcam and a light sensor. Every time the fridge is opened, the Pi…
Control and maintain your pool via a web browser using a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a massive project for you. Normally, pool automation systems cost somewhere in the region of $10k. So, an Instructables user decided to create his own using a Raspberry Pi. He hooked up all the inputs for the main swimming…
Share your computing power with BOINC on the Raspberry Pi
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC) is a way for you to get involved on global research projects. You install a client and then the slack time of your particular machine is used in the networked task of…
Getting Started with Python and Raspberry Pi – book review
David Whale sent me a couple of books to look at recently. The first, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero, I reviewed a few weeks ago. I now come onto the second one: Getting Started with Python and Raspberry Pi by Dan Nixon.…
MotoZero – a motor controller board for the Raspberry Pi – review
On Wednesday, The Pi Hut launched two new products, which I covered here. The first of these, the MotoZero, is a new Zero-form-factor motor controller board that fits on top of any 40-pin Raspberry Pi. I’ve now had a chance…
Make your own Raspberry Pi Mini Pi Noon-qualifying robot
Alex Ellis has written a lovely bare-bones tutorial over on GitHub that uses a Zumo robot kit and the Explorer pHAT, together with a Pi Zero, to create a robot that is sub-A6, which is the size you need to…
Eben Upton CBE – Raspberry Pi pioneer receives Birthday honour
Eben Upton, Chief Exec of Raspberry Pi Trading, driving force behind the Raspberry Pi and one of the nicest people I know has been named a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. He was said to be “shell-shocked” at…
Wake up to Spotify with your Raspberry Pi
George Cushen has written a rather good tutorial on creating an alarm clock using a Spotify playlist. It works on the Raspberry Pi (though any Linux-based computer running something like Ubuntu will also suffice) and involves installing several different packages…
First Surrey Raspberry Pi High Altitude Balloon launch
Richard Hayler, his sons and Nic Hughes launched the first Surrey-based Raspberry Pi HAB flight last Thursday. They took pictures on the Pi from almost 35km high: and was successfully recovered from a churchyard in Itchen Abbas: You can read…