Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
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The Pi Podcast – new episode for Raspberry Pi fans focuses on news and Dexter Industries
This time on The Pi Podcast, the guys cover the latest news, including an intriguing (and successful) attempt to get Minecraft-alike game Minetest running on the Pi. Should be interesting to see if we can get Python integration on that as…
Peterborough Raspberry Jam – 9th April – a review
On a fresh (read: a bit chilly) Saturday morning, I drove up the A1 to Peterborough to attend the Peterborough Raspberry Jam, organised by Hannah Mills & Mike Mills (no relation!). It had been a while since I attended a…
Take the Minecraft Bedrock Challenge with the Raspberry Pi and The MagPi
The MagPi has just published a fun little tutorial which gives you the code for “The Bedrock Challenge”. In Minecraft Pi Edition, the Python code generates a random, invisible arena with holes in the floor that you must avoid to prevent…
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero (Richard Grimmett) – Review
David Whale lent me a copy of this book for review. Thanks David! The author Richard Grimmett is an Idaho-based electrical engineer who has worked in the radar and telecommunications industry and now teaches computer science and electrical engineering. One of his…
NYU graduates create street quality measurement device using a Raspberry Pi
Varun Adibhatla and Graham Henke are two graduates from New York University. They have developed a system which records the condition of roads and then generates a clickable, interactive map that displays the position of road imperfections (such as pot…
Creating a Python Package on the Raspberry Pi
These instructions will work for any Linux environment. Ben Croston, who wrote RPi.GPIO (and brewed the wonderful Irration Ale for this year’s Pi Birthday Weekend from his Fuzzy Duck Brewery) has written a tutorial for creating a proper “package” out…
Cosmic ray detector for the Raspberry Pi from CERN
A team from CERN in Switzerland has been developing a Raspberry Pi-based cosmic ray detector. The system, called Cosmic Pi, will be a distributed project with each individual system on the internet contributing to the overall readings. The core of the…
3D-printed flight case for the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT / AstroPi
Les Pounder has been rummaging around in the CPC warehouse for components to populate a 3D-printed AstroPi flight case. So, far he’s found some cost effective buttons to poke out the top. The 3D-printed case came from RyanTeck. Ryan offers…
Using the Flotilla Python library on the Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ backed the Flotilla Kickstarter by Pimoroni and finally received his Mega Treasure Chest in March. He’s now begun to get to grips with the Python library that comes with it and has made a clever light meter and display using three…