Robert Savage, over on his Home Automation blog, has written an in-depth review of the book “Raspberry Pi with Java: Programming the Internet of Things”. Sounds like a pretty good book and he goes through it chapter-by-chapter. Read the review…
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New stock of the Raspberry Pi Zero available Monday
The Pi Hut and Pimoroni have announced that they should have stock of the Pi Zero available from noon on Monday. Happy days!
E-paper HAT used as a next-bus indicator with the Raspberry Pi
Yesterday, I reviewed the e-paper HAT from Percheron Electronics. Today, I came across a tweet from HAT-creator Neil Matthews which introduced me to an excellent blog post from Chris Jones of London. He has used the HAT to create a ‘next bus’…
Extreme teardown of the Raspberry Pi Zero
The guys over at electronupdate have taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and stripped various components off it, put it under a microscope and tried to find out what makes it tick. Here’s the video:
Resurrecting a ZX Spectrum using a Raspberry Pi
PJ Evans was fortunate enough to find a cheap ZX Spectrum online and decided to resurrect it using a Raspberry Pi Model B+, an Arduino and some USB conversion circuitry. He is currently part-way through his build and is documenting…
Review of Percheron Electronics E-paper HAT
Neil Matthews of Percheron Electronics, a long-time CamJammer, recently ran a Kickstarter to launch his first product: an E-paper HAT. He was kind enough to send me one for review and, now that Pi Wars is out of the way,…
New add-on for the RasPiO Duino launched for the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames did a Kickstarter a while ago for the RasPiO Duino, which is a GPIO add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that gives you an ATMega 328P-PU chip (which is the same as an Arduino Uno) as well as loads…
Pi Wars interview – how it all started and more information
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Fahad Siddiqui from Packt Publishing last week about Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition. You can read that interview here. Packt have done some great Raspberry Pi books which you…
Use WICD to set-up wifi on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie Lite
Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3 3D printed chassis, wanted to set-up wifi on his Pi Zero. He downloaded Raspbian Jessie Lite (the cut-down version of Raspbian now offered by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) but found that…
Hack a Playstation with a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming
Wesley Archer has taken an old Playstation console, a Raspberry Pi, a few other bits and some custom circuitry and created a retro gaming machine. He’s now blogged about it over at Pi Supply. Read more here.