Giles Booth has attached a SenseHAT to his Raspberry Pi and then written some simple Python script to generate a spirit level on the SenseHAT’s matrix display. Some great work here showing the flexibility of this fantastic little Pi accessory.…
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Review of the Raspberry Pi Zero by Mikronauts
Mikronauts have written an extremely detailed, very balanced review of the Raspberry Pi Zero. Well worth a read if you’re dithering about whether to get one or not. Read it here.
Preston Raspberry Jam announces 2016 dates
Preston Raspberry Jam has been going for ages and they have just announced their dates for the whole of next year. The Jams always occur on the first Monday of the month, with the first one on Monday, 4th January…
Raspberry Pi-controlled oven
Gordon loves baking and he wanted to remotely access and control the temperature. So, he took a Raspberry Pi model A+, an Adafruit HAT-sized prototyping board and some thermocouples and hooked it all up to his oven. You can read the full story…
Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff Christmas giveaway
Hi everyone! It’s Christmas! Everyone likes to get something for Christmas, so I thought it would be nice to do a blog give-away. I’m doing this in the form of a questionnaire, so it’s easy to get responses through. What…
Tim Peake is on the International Space Station!
British astronaut Tim Peake launched from Baikonur at 11.03am (GMT). As part of his mission to the International Space Station, Tim will conduct experiments on two Raspberry Pi flight units that were sent up on 6th December. Here’s Tim with the world’s…
Raspberry Pi DOTs boards now available
The DOTs board, designed by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is now available to buy online. The board, which uses conductive paint in a dot-to-dot fashion, is supplied with a plugin for Minecraft Pi Edition which will draw the outline of…
Run a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery
Daniel Bull has written up some excellent instructions for wiring up and soldering an Adafruit PowerBoost LiPo charger onto a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a Zero for this initial hack but you should be able to use any Raspberry Pi (the lower-powered…
Looking inside a standard “yellow motor”
Richard (aka Average Man) used to like taking things apart when he was a youngster. This tendency has not diminished with age and he’s turned his attention to one of those standard “yellow motors”, such as those that come with…
Montreal user group for the Raspberry Pi – people wanted!
Christophe Reverd has been in touch about setting up a user group for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts in Montreal, Canada. So, I’m putting out a big call for anyone in the area to get in contact with him about it. There’s…