Some great news for owners of the FUZE platform. An update has been released that means you can now interface with the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT using the FUZE BASIC language. The following commands have been added: senseRGBcolour – sets the active colour…
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Track aircraft near you with PiAware on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon wanted to track aircraft near him. So, he installed PiAware on his Raspberry Pi and then wrote some simple Python to detect when an aircraft was nearby and then light up an LED. It’s a simple project, but it’s a…
New episode of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank now online
The fourth episode of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank is now online. Paul Beech is fresh back from the New York Maker Faire and takes us through what he saw there. Great stuff for old and young geeks alike. Not much about…
Make your own Raspberry Pi night vision goggles
Maker/enthusiast Mr Fid has taken a cheap pair of video goggles and attached a Raspberry Pi, a Pi NoIR camera and an IR light source. He has then fed the composite video output of the Pi into the goggles and…
New GPIO wrapper library for the Raspberry Pi
Ben Nuttall has been working hard to create a library which will provide a simpler interface to the GPIO pins. The library is called GPIO Zero. At the moment, on the RPi.GPIO library, there are a couple of commands to…
Install Chromium 45 on Jessie on the Raspberry Pi 2
Conor O’Neill has found out that the Ubuntu developers have been continuing to build Pi-compatible versions of desktop browser Chromium. He has documented a way to install it on the new Jessie version of Raspbian on his website. As he…
Q4OS – a new Windows-like distro for the Raspberry Pi
Q4OS has announced that their operating system is now available for the Raspberry Pi. It’s not quite complete yet, and some features aren’t available, but it looks good and could prove a valuable alternative. Download the beta image from their…
Gorgeous Game Boy clone made using a Raspberry Pi 2
Cristov wanted an authentic 80s gameplay experience and so set about creating a Game Boy clone. He used a Raspberry Pi, three custom circuit boards, a 3.5″ TFT screen and actual Game Boy parts for the controls. You can see…
Maker Faire Berlin – 3rd-4th October – Raspberry Pi exhibitors!
If you’re in (or near) Germany, you can do a lot worse this weekend than going over to Berlin and dropping by the Maker Faire. There will be lots of tech exhibitors there and in amongst them will be James…
Make your own Netflix-enabling button
So you want to watch Netflix on the television, dim your lights and order pizza at the same time? At the push of a button? Well, now you can with this nifty project that’s been put up on the Netflix…