Skycademy is a new initiative from the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will teach educators and children’s group leaders how to launch high altitude balloons with Raspberry Pis attached. Next week, a series of balloons will be launched by the 24…
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A day in the life of Raspberry Pi’s Liz Upton
Just wanted to quickly blog this absolutely charming article written by the brilliant Liz from the Foundation. It’s a ‘day in the life’ blog post in which she describes a typical day (if life at the Foundation is ever typical!) and includes…
WittyPi for the Raspberry Pi – video review
Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has just published a video review of the Witty Pi power management and real-time clock board by UUGear. This £10 board gives you a real-time clock so that your Pi always has the correct time, even…
PianoHAT for the Raspberry Pi – a review
Occasionally, I get sent things in the post to review. Sometimes I buy a product just because I think it looks cool. This is one of the latter type. Update: I have added a video demo here. Introduction The original board,…
Analysing traffic patterns with the Raspberry Pi
Over at MathWorks’ MakerZone, Eric Wetjen has written a tutorial/article in which he shows a way of using a webcam to count cars on a highway. The webcam captures images and then they use Simulink to analyse the images. The data is then sent…
Astro Pi winning team’s teacher tells all about their entry
Teacher Dan Aldred from Thirsk School has been telling Linux User and Developer all about his year 7 club’s winning entry into the Astro Pi competition. He covers everything from how the club was set-up, how they came up with their idea of tracking the…
Lizard selfies with a Raspberry Pi
Roberto Marquez has set-up a Raspberry Pi to take pictures of his lizard. The Pi listens for a GPIO pin to change state, triggered by a capacitive touch sensor. All his Java code is available on GitHub. You can see a…
Fireflies come alive in this art installation controlled by Raspberry Pi
Making it’s debut in the Olympus Photography Playground in Vienna in February 2015, Neon Golden’s art installation “Swarm” mimics the behaviour of fireflies via LEDs which are strung from the ceiling at various different heights. Using both Raspberry Pi and Arduino control…
Wine barrel becomes an arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi
Adelaide-based Matt Shaw wanted an arcade machine of his very own. His solution? Take an old wine barrel and adapt it for the purpose. He used a work-surplus monitor as a display and then cut a form-fitting fibreboard box to…
New Raspberry Pi podcast launches
Joe Ressington, Isaac Carter and Albert Hickey have teamed up to create “The Pi Podcast“. Their first episode is now online and is all to do with Ubuntu MATE, which is now available for the Pi. Listen to the podcast here.