Big stuff happened yesterday and I haven’t got around to blogging it until now. Myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann (from The Pi Hut) have been working for months (Months, I tell you! Months!) to create the new CamJam EduKit. This one…
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Install OSMC on a USB stick to use with your Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville aka the Average Man has written a not-so-average blog post about installing OSMC (Open Source Media Centre) onto a USB stick so you can use it with your Raspberry Pi. He explains why it’s a good and/or bad…
New Raspberry Pi operating system for seniors
A maker/programmer called Gerald decided that the Raspberry Pi was the perfect computer for senior citizens (a term I’m not totally sure I like all that much, but heigh-ho). He has created a new operating system distro called “Senior Pi” which…
New LED display add-on slips over the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi – Kickstarter
David Meiklejohn from Gooligum Electronics has just launched a Kickstarter for their new add-on board called the Joey. The Joey slips over the GPIO pins (without a header – it’s all done with friction, similar to the Ryanteck Debug Clip) and sticks out…
Weather station using the Raspberry Pi touchscreen and Kivy
Alan Pullen is currently working on a weather station project which will bring together a Pi with an Arduino to take readings and display them onto a Raspberry Pi touchscreen. He wants to measure temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall and, very…
GPIO Zero for the Raspberry Pi – more details
Alex Eames has scored a great interview with Ben Nuttall about his new GPIO library, GPIO Zero. Zero, which is written on top of Ben Croston’s great RPi.GPIO library, aims to abstract some of the more difficult or long-winded concepts and is…
Wearable guerilla video projection device made out of a Raspberry Pi
Artist R▲has created the VIDEOBLAST_R which is a wrist-mounted device which allows the wearer to project pre-prepared artistic imagery on any surface. Animation is triggered by a Wii nunchuck controller and the whole thing is mounted on a rollerblade armguard. An…
Decryption machine reproduction with a Raspberry Pi (Turing-Welchman)
The Turing-Welchman Bombe was a decryption machine used in World War II to decipher Enigma-encoded German messages. There is a real one running at Bletchley Park: New Zealander Simon Jensen visited Bletchley and decided that he wanted to build a replica…
Big wide eyes with a Raspberry Pi compute module
The Interactive Architecture Lab is based in University College London and they have been working on producing a prosthetic suit called the Polymelia. It’s all about improving the human body through a series of prostheses… I think… it’s all a…
Fun at Maker Faire Berlin for one Raspberry Pi enthusiast
James Mitchell, who runs the Berlin Raspberry Jam, represented all things Raspberry Pi at the recent Maker Faire Berlin. He had put together a stall full of Raspberry Pi-related projects: Motorised spinning flower Jedi or Sith detector Conway’s Game of…