Martin O’Hanlon has previously used Pi Aware to access publicly available data about aircraft positions. Now he has taken his work further by creating a RADAR system that displays aircraft positions relative to your GPS co-ordinates. It’s a great example of…
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Barcelona Raspberry Jam – 14th November
The next Barcelona Raspberry Jam will take place on 14th November from 10am-5pm at Makers of Barcelona. The full programme is now available and you can book free tickets here.
Astro Pi on the BBC’s One Show
Friday saw astronaut Tim Peake and Astro Pi competition winner Hannah Belshaw being interviewed on the BBC’s magazine programme The One Show. If you’re in the UK, you can watch the episode online via BBC iPlayer. Tim and Hannah talk…
Pi Top creators (@GetPiTop) launch crowdfunding campaign for new @Raspberry_Pi desktop
Exciting news on the crowdfunding front today. The creators of Pi Top, the first Raspberry Pi laptop, have launched a new campaign to fund their desktop offering, the Pi-TopCEED. The Pi-TopCEED offers you a Pi-based workstation with a 13.3″ HD…
Create an interactive pet with the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT
Carrie Anne Philbin has been very busy recently with her Raspberry Pi Foundation duties. Now she’s back in her guise as the creator of the Geek Gurl Diaries videos! Her new video tutorial takes you through from connecting up the SenseHAT…
Cloud security camera using a Raspberry Pi
Tony Dicola over at Adafruit has published a tutorial which takes you through the steps needed to create a motion-sensor controlled security camera which uploads photographs to Dropbox so they can be viewed from anywhere in the world. They’ve even included…
Raspberry Pi touchscreen review
Magazine Raspberry Pi Geek has published online their review of the new Touchscreen from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They are generally positive about it and provide a lot of detail as to how to use it in various ways. Read…
Host a WordPress site on your Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice beginners’ tutorial that tells you how to install WordPress and MySQL to enable you to host a blog website on your Raspberry Pi. Read it here.
Peterborough Raspberry Jam – Saturday 28th November
This is just a bit of a shout-out for the Peterborough Raspberry Jam which will be taking place on 28th November from 10.30am-4.30pm at the University Campus on Park Crescent. This looks like it’s going to be a lot of…
Coding Evening spreads to Southend-on-Sea
Cat Lamin’s Coding Evening idea has gone from strength to strength and they are now starting to pop up in the most extraordinary places. The latest one is in Southend-on-Sea on 19th November at 7.30pm. It is being run by the…