Jamie Bailey from Initial State has been in contact. They have taken the data from Ed and Izzy, the two AstroPi units on the International Space Station, and imported it into their Internet of Things platform. They have made the entire graphing display…
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SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…
String Art machine creates beautiful masterpieces with a Raspberry Pi
London-based Laarco have developed a machine to create large works of art using a technique known as “String Art”. This technique uses thousands of nails and a single piece of string to construct a ‘painting’ of a subject. Laarco’s machine, called…
Comparison of the Raspberry Pi camera modules
As you probably know, two new camera modules have just been released by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Alex Eames has carried out a comparison of the old versions and the new versions and has written up his (surprising) findings. Take…
Full Minecraft game running on a Raspberry Pi 3
Mike Hooper has been looking at ways to get the full version of Minecraft working on his Pi. He’s now managed it and has written up a tutorial over on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Great work, Mike! You can see…
How to free up space on your Raspberry Pi SD card
Alex Eames has just written a great tutorial which takes you through the process of removing specific packages from your Pi’s SD card. He chooses to remove Wolfram and LibreOffice for a massive 1.3GB space saving. If you’re running short of…
Ryanteck launches USB compatible Raspberry Pi GPIO header on Kickstarter
Ryan Walmsley of Ryanteck has just launched a new Kickstarter. This time, it’s for a very innovative product called the RTK.GPIO (the jury is still out on the name 😉 ). It connects to any computer (including the Pi) via…
New Pi Podcast features Raspberry Pi balloonist Dave Akerman
The latest Pi Podcast is out! Along with the usual mixture of chat and news, this one features an interview with legendary high altitude balloonist Dave Akerman. Well worth a listen – go to their site.
Nottingham Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 28th May
Nottingham Hackspace are hosting a Raspberry Jam on Saturday 28th May at their premises on Alfred Street South, Nottingham. This is especially ideal for newcomers, but everyone is welcome to the event which is running from 11am-3pm. Notes about car parking…
Infra-red baby monitor using the Raspberry Pi 3 and PiNoIR camera
Aaron Davies has posted his project up on the Element 14 website. In it, he creates a baby monitor using the a Raspberry Pi 3, a new Pi NoIR v2 camera module and some infra-red LEDs. He uses some software…