Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has put together a great 4 minute video of highlights from the year to celebrate the Raspberry Pi’s 4th birthday, which is coming up in just 10 short days. Great job, Matt. Watch…
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Program a CodeBug from a Raspberry Pi with Python
The MagPi has just published one of it’s articles online. This one covers programming the CodeBug micro-controller from a Raspberry Pi using a Python 3 library. Read it here.
Chelmsford Raspberry Jam write-up by the Average Man
Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) went to the Chelmsford Raspberry Jam last weekend and had a great time. He’s blogged his thoughts about the event with a lot of detail as to what went on there. Read it here.
Build a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB hub
Adding USB ports to the Raspberry Pi Zero seems to be a common occurrence nowadays, so I’ve not covered many of them on the blog. However, here’s a rather novel idea: taking a USB hub and fitting a Zero into it.…
iPhone game played automatically with a Raspberry Pi and a Gertbot
Junya Sakamoto wanted a little help with the later levels of Puzzle & Dragons (which is big in Japan). So he added a Gertbot to his Raspberry Pi and then hooked up some motors and a rig to allow the Pi to…
Pimoroni Flotilla unboxing – Raspberry Pi treasure chest of bits!
Unboxing videos… you either love them or you hate them. I’m somewhat ambivalent – if they’re good and to the point, great. Fortunately, the video above by Keith Downling is one of these. It’s an unboxing of Pimoroni’s Flotilla Mega Treasure…
Portable Raspberry Pi Geiger counter
Jeff Cartwright has put together a lovely Instructable for creating a portable Geiger counter using a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit, which communicates over serial to the Pi, added a PiTFT to display things on and then fashioned a…
New version of Raspbian Jessie released for the Raspberry Pi
A new version of the Raspbian Jessie operating system has been released. The following software packages have been updated: Sonic Pi – now at version 2.9 Scratch has been updated with improved sound input capabilities, support for the CamJam EduKit 3 robotics…
Raspberry Pi releases 3D printing files for the Astro Pi flight case
Apologies for getting to this late – Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend jobs have been stacking up, so priorities… Raspberry Pi has released the STL files and a tutorial that will allow you to 3D-print your own version of the…
New home theatre box with surround sound using the Raspberry Pi
This crowdfunding campaign failed. This post is left here for historical reasons. Pi2Design has come up with a very neat package for their latest crowdfunding campaign (campaign failed). The Pi2Media Home Theatre One combines a Raspberry Pi 2 with two add-on boards…