Taken from a fairly recent issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi, here is a review of the Drum HAT from the wizarding pirates of the North, Pimoroni. The overall opinion is 4/5 and the board receives a great reaction…
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New products from The Pi Hut and Average Man for the Raspberry Pi
Today sees the release of two brand new products, available exclusively from The Pi Hut and designed by Richard Saville (aka the Average Man). The first is a very pretty new motor driver board called MotoZero. It allows you to control four…
Use your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins at the same time as the SenseHAT
Keith Ellis does a rather good line in tutorial videos over at pi-tutorials.co.uk. Recently, he wondered if it was possible to use the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins with the SenseHAT attached. At first glance, it seems that it’s not possible due…
Take one down and pass it around with the Raspberry Pi
The members of Noisebridge in San Francisco recently attended the Bay Area Maker Faire. They took with them Flaschen Taschen – a 10′ by 9′ display of 1575 clear bottles with WS2801/Neopixel strips embedded inside. Using a Raspberry Pi, these daisy-chained strips…
Dundee Raspberry Jam – 11th June
Dundee MakerSpace are holding Dundee’s first Raspberry Jam on 11th June from 10.30am-4.30pm at their premises in Greenmarket. Tickets are available from Eventbrite.
Raspberry Jam Berlin – 25th June – for German-based Raspberry Pi enthusiasts
James Mitchell is running another Jam in Berlin. Based at FabLab Berlin, the Jam will be held on 25th June from 12-4pm and will include a mixture of show and tell lightning talks and general chit-chat, along with help for…
Bare bones Raspberry Pi operating system for NatureBytes camera system
Recently, NatureBytes have managed to fulfil their Kickstarter rewards. This means a lot of units (like the one pictured below) in the hands of users. The system comes with a Raspberry Pi A+ and, because of the lower-spec nature of…
Controlling a robot arm with analog sliders and a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has created a brilliant showpiece for Jams and other events. He’s taken a robot arm controlled by 6 servos and hooked it up to an ABelectronics servo controller board. He added a NiMH battery to…
High Altitude Balloon flight with the new Raspberry Pi Zero and camera module
When the original Zero came out, high altitude balloonist Dave Akerman said to Eben Upton that he’d love to see a new revision with a camera port, as that would make it ideal for ballooning and taking photographs of the…
Raspberry Pi Music Box – my own project
For a long time, I’ve wanted to do a project which involved two of my passions: the Raspberry Pi and music. I’ve seen several projects which have successfully managed it, in particular the Joytone which used lots of joysticks to create…