There are a couple of pre-built solutions for powering the Raspberry Pi on a portable basis. Some are actually ‘out there’, some are… a bit delayed, we’ll say. Instructables user DylanD581 has written a great tutorial which uses an Adafruit HAT…
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Liz Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the spotlight on The Pi Podcast
Liz Upton, Director of Communications at Raspberry Pi, gets the Pi Podcast treatment this time. Liz is one of my favourite people – she’s always friendly, always straightforward and fights her corner with the best of them. She’s steadfastly guided…
Raspberry Pi-powered experiment workshops for Body Science Saturday – Braintree – 19th March
Andy Melder, who is one of the organisers of the splendid Southend Raspberry Jam, is running Raspberry Pi-powered drop-in sessions throughout the day this Saturday at Braintree District Museum on Manor Street in Braintree, Essex. Running from 10am-4pm, the workshops will feature…
VoxCube – many blinkies controlled by a Raspberry Pi in this 8x8x8 cube on Kickstarter
Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has been in touch about his new Kickstarter project. Mark previously ran the successful campaign for BerryIMU – a multi-function gyro/accelerometer sensor which now sits at the heart of the Picorder, my sensors-in-a-box project. The new Kickstarter is…
Comparative speed test and review of the Raspberry Pi 3
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers has published a video in which he reviews the Raspberry Pi 3 and then compares it side-by-side against a Raspberry Pi 2. He boots both machines, opens LibreOffice Writer and also runs a complex filter using GIMP.…
Q&A with Eben Upton from IT Pro
Adam Shepherd has carried out a rather nice Q&A session with Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading. Well worth reading, and you can really hear Eben’s voice in it, rather than some other interviews which read very… edited, I think is…
Analysing football statistics with R, Python, MongoDB and a Raspberry Pi
Paul Weeks has set up his Raspberry Pi to do data analysis on football results and other statistics. His first post dealt with setting up his Raspberry Pi for the job, including installing various software packages. His second post is all…
Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists exhibition – apply for tickets
The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists programme focused on “supporting and inspiring young people who are interested in creative uses of technology.” The initiative, spearheaded by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is a mentoring programme that has taken nine young people under its…
Controlling Spotify with Slack and a Raspberry Pi
Oklahoma-based Aaron Krauss works at Staplegun where they have just moved floors to an open-plan office. They had a sound system installed but no easy way to control it as the hub was in their server room (which was nowhere near where…
Create an open wifi network sniffer with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice little tutorial from Dexter Industries. In it, they use a Raspberry Pi, their GrovePi add-on board, an LCD screen and a buzzer to create a system that will alert you when an open wifi network is found. Please…