The MagPi has published a tutorial that teaches you how to prototype your very own, simple Raspberry Pi HAT. They work with a breadboard to start with and go through the process of flashing the EEPROM. Read it here.
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Steam powered engine drives a Raspberry Pi Zero
This is a ridiculous project, but that doesn’t make it any less cool. “Alexzpro” has created a steam boiler (with water heated by two propane blow torches!) which drives a two-cylinder steam engine. The engine turns a motor which generates power.…
Mini Maker Day (for kids) in Cambridge – Wednesday, 6th April
Cambridge Eagle Lab is holding a Mini Maker Day on Wednesday, 6th April from 10am-1pm for young people who would like to explore making. An opportunity to generate ideas, solve problems and make artistic and practical objects in our creative…
Explore an AstroPi winning entry with the Raspberry Pi website
Hannah Belshaw from Cumnor House Girls School recently won the chance to have her AstroPi project run on the International Space Station. The project records data from the AstroPi’s SenseHAT and then visualises that data inside the world of Minecraft. Martin O’Hanlon,…
Raspberry Pi retro gaming table built from IKEA furniture
Over on the Element 14 community, Spencer (spannerspencer) has documented his build of a retro gaming table. The original table is one of those square Lack coffee tables from IKEA (the ones everybody has got, it seems) and he has added the…
CamJam EduKit 1 joins Raspberry Pi learning resources
Pardon me while I get a little excited! 🙂 Ben Nuttall ran a GPIO Zero workshop at the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend. In the workshop, he used components from CamJam EduKit 1 (a cheap electronics components kit) to teach the basics…
Aeroponics system controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Sony Arouje and his wife grow plants and crops using aeroponics. They use a Raspberry Pi to automatically control the system’s various pumps and mechanisms and also to read button presses to trigger the system manually. Read more about the system…
Use a Raspberry Pi Zero to feed pictures to a digital picture frame
Francesco Vannini has written a tutorial, based on work by Andrew Mulholland, to allow you to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as a mass storage device which can be read as a source by a digital picture frame. Read it…
Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 hosted some of the RPF site on launch day
Pete Stevens from Mythic Beasts has described on the Raspberry Pi blog how a Raspberry Pi 2 and a Raspberry Pi 3 were pressed into action on the Pi 3 launch day to handle some of the traffic. It makes for interesting…
Hull Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 23rd April
Claire Garside is organising the very first Hull Raspberry Jam to take place on 23rd April. The event, which runs from 10.15am-1.15pm (very specific!) promises a range of activities including hands-on digital making workshops and a hackspace area to share…