During the summer, Tomomi Imura built a Node.js app which captured images from the Raspberry Pi camera module and used animal facial recognition to store them based on whether or not her pet cat was detected. The Pi uses a…
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Merry Christmas from the Raspberry PiPod
This is just a quick message to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing tomorrow, I hope you’ll be filled with the Christmas spirit and have a lovely time. Please spare a thought for those…
RasPiO Duino LCD kit – review
Alex was kind enough to send me one of these kits but I’m free to say what I like. This kit is all about learning how to display data onto an LCD screen from analog temperature sensors. The basic kit…
Create a marble maze with the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT
I’ve just had this resource pointed out to me on Twitter, so thought I’d share it with you all whilst I’m waiting to go to our work’s Christmas lunch. The SenseHAT has an on-board accelerometer, with which you can measure…
Prototype your Raspberry Pi Zero projects with the ProtoZero
Richard Saville (aka AverageMan) previously ran Kickstarters for prototyping boards for the full-size Raspberry Pi. Now, he’s taken things smaller and created the ProtoZero. He is now running a Kickstarter to raise funds to produce it. The ProtoZero is a…
Weather forecasting with the Raspberry Pi and the SenseHAT
Giles Booth continues his series using the SenseHAT with this rather nifty weather forecasting script. It reads a forecast from the BBC news API and then performs some text-replacement jiggery-pokery before outputting the information to the SenseHAT’s matrix display. Really glad he’s…
Christmas give-away result
Hi everyone. The winner of the give-away was Mr S Gailey. Sorry if you didn’t win – hopefully I’ll run more give-aways next year, so look out for them 🙂 Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Roll a dice with the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT
Giles Booth has followed up his previous work with the SenseHAT to create a dice rolling device. The SenseHAT detects G-forces via the onboard accelerometer and then, when a tolerance is breached, the Pi generates a random number which is displayed on the…
Raspberry Pi AstroPi coder Crazy Squeak featured in local newspaper
Just a quick shout-out to the Royston Crow who have featured Amaideo Page-John (aka Crazy Squeak) and his programming work that has been launched into space with Tim Peake. The 10-year old, from Royston, was one of the lucky entrants in the Astro…
Installing and using Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2
Gus over at pimylifeup.com has had lots of requests for a Windows 10 IoT tutorial, especially about how to set it up and use it. Well, he’s now written a tutorial specifically for that purpose and you can read it here.