Initial State, who I’ve blogged about before, host an Internet of Things service that allows you to send data to it and then visualise that data using their dashboard tools. They have now written a course based around their service…
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South London Raspberry Jam – Autism and Tourette’s friendly – seeks funding
Grace Owolade-Coombes and her son Femi (who recently braved CamJam and did a talk about Festival of Code) are planning to hold a Raspberry Jam in South London on 17th October. This will be a very special Jam – it…
Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device
Charles Gantt has been blogging about his latest project, the Foginator 2000, over at Element 14. His latest instalment deals with taking readings from the SenseHAT and then sending them to the cloud via a service called Initial State. He’s…
Matt Richardson talks AstroPi, SenseHAT and Raspberry Pis
Here’s a quick video from Matt Richardson, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s ‘man in the States’. In it he talks about AstroPi, the SenseHAT and sending them up into space. It’s all in aid of getting kids interested in coding. He…
Wireless FM radio microphone built using a Raspberry Pi
Removed as it is illegal in the UK to broadcast on FM at this kind of strength.
Testing high-altitude ballooning kit with a kite and a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler recently attended the Skycademy training course to learn how to fly high-altitude balloons with Raspberry Pi payloads. He has now merged his experience with one of his hobbies – kite flying. Previously he used kites to aerial-map the…
LISP used to create a new operating system for the Raspberry Pi
Lukas F. Hartmann decided that there simply weren’t enough operating systems available for the Raspberry Pi and endeavoured to write a brand new one from scratch. Using his past experience, he has managed to create an alpha build of InterimOS…
Controlling air conditioning using a Raspberry Pi and a Microsoft Band
As part of the IoT Zone over at Dzone.com, Joost van Schaik has written up his ‘air conditioning’ project which uses the Microsoft Windows 10 Core IoT operating system to read the temperature in a room and then activate a fan if…
Remote-control lawnmower powered by a Raspberry Pi
A recent 24-hour StartFEST hackathon has awarded first prize to three brothers from Salt Lake City, Utah. Dan, Doug and David Leonard used a Raspberry Pi to control wheels connected to two drill motors that propelled a lawnmower across the garden. They…
October issue of The MagPi for Raspberry Pi owners out now!
The latest issue of The MagPi is out and it looks to be a good one. The central feature is a “building a robot” special which aims to get you up-and-running for £50. We recently announced the third CamJam EduKit…