This time, The Pi Podcast guys have interviewed Cat Lamin about her Coding Evening initiative which aims to bring together educators and professional technologists. As well as the interview, the Podcast is packed with Pi news including the new touchscreen…
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Use a Codebug to take pictures with your Raspberry Pi
Codebug, the ex-Kickstarter project, is now on sale at CPC for £15. The small board can be connected up to a Raspberry Pi via USB and used as an input device via a Python library. Thomas Macpherson-Pope has, over on the…
Quake in a Box on the Raspberry Pi
“Quake in a Box” is a project that allows you to run a full QuakeWorld LAN server on your Raspberry Pi. It comes in the form on a downloadable distro image based on Arch Linux. Instructions are available here.
CamJam EduKit 3 – Robotics for the Raspberry Pi announced
At the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on Saturday, myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann from The Pi Hut announced the third CamJam EduKit. This kit is all about robotics. You can catch the launch video below or skip it and read…
Pimoroni focus on Raspberry Pi HATs for their second episode
The recording of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank episode 001 is now online. This episode covers HATs; what they are, what HATs are available and what you can use them for. Take a look at the video below. As always, it leans…
Map the Minecraft world around you on a Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have published a new SenseHAT tutorial. This one interrogates Minecraft Pi and creates a map of the surrounding blocks. This map is then sent to the SenseHAT where it is displayed on the 8×8 LED matrix. Read…
Old gaming console converted into a Raspberry Pi retro machine
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old Grandstand Scramble gaming console and adapted it for use with the Raspberry Pi. He’s got a 5″ HDMI TFT screen (which gives a resolution of 800×480) for the display and used the Picade controller…
Rubik’s Cube solver to replace valuable Raspberry Pi employees
Sorry, that was a bit click-baity wasn’t it! 🙂 Today, the BBC are running a feature on robots and how they are expected, or at least strongly suggested, to replace certain careers. Here’s one of the articles they are running.…
Watch a virtual CamJam – Raspberry Pi talk videos up on YouTube
Andy Batey has smashed his record at getting the recorded videos from Saturday’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam up on YouTube. They are now available on the CamJam channel and are prefixed “CamJam10”. There’s some great talks available: Concurrent programming with the Pi…
New Kickstarter enables LCD displays to stand up and be counted on a Raspberry Pi
David Saul, who previously had success with his PiMuxClock Kickstarter has launched a new crowdfunding campaign. This one enables you to mount a little LCD screen vertically on your Pi’s GPIO pins. It works with HD44780-compatible LCDs, including the newer RGB-backlight…