Victoria Button has just seen the completion of the installation of her art project at a shopping centre in Chelmsford. The project, which is at the High Chelmer shopping centre, seeks to highlight the issue of air pollution in our environment and…
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Art installation uses a Raspberry Pi to show how stupid people can be with their data
Martin Hertig from Switzerland has created an art installation called “Sensible Data” that shows just how easily people give up personal data, and what the pitfalls of that are. You use an iPad to take your photograph and give your…
Using a hall-effect sensor with the Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins wanted to detect a magnet on his 3D printer. To do this, he has used a hall-effect sensor module and some simple Python script on the Raspberry Pi. If you want to experiment with this nice little, cheap…
Pyrite sun discs used to create music on the Raspberry Pi
Dmitry Morozov is a Russian “media artist” and has created this wonderful piece of artwork. Using a custom laser set-up, he scans the discs of pyrite, produced on this planet seemingly only in Illinois, and then sends the data through…
Pi Podcast hits 4th episode with interview of Scratch developer
The Pi Podcast is really starting to hit its stride now. In this episode, they interview Scratch developer Tim Rowledge and cover the big news story that Raspbian has transitioned to Debian Jessie. Listen to the podcast here.
Cannybots Kickstarter launched today – includes Raspberry Pi support
Cannybots, who are a regular at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam, have been working on their product for 18 months now. During that time, they’ve gone through several iterations of the product and introduced it to several schools in prototype form. The Cannybot…
New version of Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi – moves to “Jessie”
Exciting news on the operating system front this morning. Raspbian, the standard OS for the Raspberry Pi, now uses the Jessie version of Debian as a base. This has introduced several new improvements, chiefly among which are: sudo-less GPIO access…
Tracking the position of Boston’s underground trains on the wall using a Raspberry Pi
MIT student Ian Reynolds has a fascination with the Greater Boston transit system, and more specifically MBTA’s T subway. So, he brought together a bunch of LED strips, an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi to create some wall art for his bedroom…
Read flight information via Python on a Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon has created a Python class that interrogates the JSON feed data from Piaware (the Pi implementation of FlightAware), exposing that data to any Python script that you might care to write. The class, FlightData, is available to download…
St Louis Raspberry Jam – 3rd October
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Maker Group in St. Louis is holding their second Raspberry Jam on Saturday, October 3, 2015 from 1-5pm. The event is free and is open to all ages, families, engineers, science and robot enthusiasts, and educators. During the event,…