David Pride decided he wanted to hack something both fun and complicated and so decided to build a motorised Connect 4 game. Called 4-Bot, the project allows a human player to play the Raspberry Pi at the popular game. The Pi works…
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Raspberry Pi celebrates International Women’s Day with Women in Tech feature
Helen Lynn has just posted a new blog article for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In the post, Helen highlights six women who are doing brilliant things in tech. They are: Cat Lamin, Sonia Uppal, Dr Lucy Rogers, Yasmin Bey, Sway…
Create a binary clock with your Raspberry Pi and add-on board
Simon Monk has written a nice tutorial on creating a binary clock using the Pi and a Unicorn HAT or SenseHAT. It’s been published by the MagPi online and you can read it here.
Raspberry Pi Zero inside a SNES controller
James Poole decided to take an old SNES controller and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside it, creating a portable games console. Read how he did it here.
Covent Garden Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 23rd April – tickets available
Tickets for the 6th Covent Garden Raspberry Jam are now available on Eventbrite. The event runs from 2-4.30pm at the Dragon Hall Trust. Get your tickets here. I’m hoping to make this one!
Peterborough Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 9th April – tickets now on sale
Mike Mills, Hannah Mills (no relation) and Tony Warner are running a Raspberry Jam at University Campus Peterborough on Saturday, 9th April. The event will run from 10-4.30pm and will feature a mixture of talks, workshops, show and tell and a…
Beginner’s guide to installing Node.js on a Raspberry Pi
Dave Johnson from San Diego contacted me to share a guide he’s written on installing Node.js on the Pi. It takes you through first principles like writing the SD card and configuring the Pi before moving onto the Node.js installation…
Raspberry Pi Family photo updated to include the Pi 3
Alex Eames always creates a new Raspberry Pi family photo of all the different models whenever a new one comes out. Well, he’s now updated his photo to include the Pi 3. You can view the full 50MB photo on…
@Raspberry_Pi #PiParty live streaming URLs
Apologies for the short notice! Just posting this from the hotel! If you are unable to make the Big Birthday Weekend, you can hopefully (technology allowing) join us via live video stream! Here are the URLs: http://cam.adobeconnect.com/piparty1 http://cam.adobeconnect.com/piparty2 Here are…
PiBorg launches new motor controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero
PiBorg, the small company based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire who created the Doodleborg and Diddyborg robots (as well as lots of other boards, bots and, of course the excellent turntable at this year’s Pi Wars), have this morning announced the…