This morning, two new cameras for the Raspberry Pi were released. These cameras, which are direct drop-in replacements for the old ones (i.e. they have the same ribbon cable connector) feature new Sony IMX219 sensors. They still have fixed-focus lenses, but…
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Packt Publishing running a 50% sale on some Raspberry Pi titles today
Packt is doing a 50% off deal on selected Raspberry Pi books today. The books are as follows: Building a Media Center with Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino (2nd edition) Building a…
Game creation software available for free to Raspberry Pi users
The Game Creators have just announced that they have released their AppGameKit software for the Raspberry Pi free-of-charge. CEO Lee Bamber said: “It’s the full AppGameKit BASIC, which has the IDE, can compile and broadcast (includes broadcasting to iOS and Android…
GPIO Zero v1.2 for the Raspberry Pi hits Raspbian
GPIO Zero, the easy-to-use Python library for the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins has just had an update on the Raspbian repository. It’s been available for a couple of weeks now via a slightly convoluted route, but is now available with…
Covent Garden Raspberry Jam – this Saturday
A Raspberry Jam will be held in Covent Garden, London this Saturday. Running from 2-4.30pm at the Covent Garden Dragon Hall Trust, the event will feature some well-known Pi faces and hopes to attract both newcomers and old-hands. Everyone is welcome,…
South London Raspberry Jam – 14th May
Grace Owolade-Coombes is holding a Raspberry Jam for children aged between 5 and 15 years old on Saturday 14th May. The event is being held at Kano HQ on Mile End Road near Docklands and runs from 1.30-4.30pm. Here’s how she…
Autism-friendly big-screen media player based around a Raspberry Pi
Alain Mauer‘s son Scott is autistic, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t benefit from the cool stuff technology can do, nor should it! Alain decided that he wanted to set-up a media centre/player for his son but needed it…
Simple, but effective interface to control a headless Raspberry Pi
Over at Make, Pičugins Arsenijs has been describing their project to create an interface for the Raspberry Pi when operating in headless mode. Hooked up to the serial line and providing a small LCD screen as a display is the…
Calculate Pi and print on a thermal printer from a Raspberry Pi
Billy has written an Instructable in which he explains how to calculate Pi in various ways before writing a method in Python code to do it. The result is then printed out on a thermal printer from Adafruit. The whole…
Emergency spaceship simulator game has a Raspberry Pi server
The boffins at York Hackspace have created a demonstration piece called SpaceHack for Maker Faires and other events that simulates an emergency situation onboard a spacecraft and then invites players to work together to keep it operating for as long as…