Over at PubNub, they’ve been using Java to do some great things. This time, they’re using it to interact with a Leap Motion. Movements in the user’s hands are replicated with servos. Attached to the servos are some 8×8 LED…
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Pi Wars programme cover design competition
On the day of Pi Wars, we hand out programmes to every competitor and every spectator. These programmes contain details about the competition and also about our sponsors. Here is what the programme looked like last year: This year, we…
Digital Zoetrope controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Brian Corteil has been working on his digital zoetrope for most of this year. At the recent Newcastle Maker Faire he showed off his creation. Later on, his brought it along to CamJam and showed the Raspberry Pi community what…
Monitoring cricket scores with the Raspberry Pi
Rohit Gupta wanted to monitor cricket scores while he was working in his office. The trouble is almost all the sites he would use to do this were blocked by his company’s web traffic filter. So, he turned to the Raspberry Pi…
Basement storage temperature and humidity monitor with a Raspberry Pi
A basement full of old books but no way to monitor humidity and temperature. Enter a Raspberry Pi. This hacker has put together a DHT22 sensor and an LCD screen with the Pi in order to monitor environmental conditions in…
Lots of education-related videos from EuroPython over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation website
Recently, some of the Foundation’s education team headed over to Bilbao, Spain for the EuroPython conference. Many of the talks were recorded and the Foundation have blogged about the ones that they presented. They are: Carrie Anne Philbin – Education: A Python solution…
Raspberry Pi Guy seeks questions for Eben Upton
On Tuesday, Matthew Timmons-Brown is heading up to Pi Towers in Cambridge. As part of his visit there he will be interviewing Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading and co-creator of the Raspberry Pi. He wants to know what you…
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi RPi.GPIO Quick Reference Ruler before time runs out!
I’ve just realised that the campaign I’ve been featuring on the blog for the last few weeks is almost at an end. The RasPiO GPIO Ruler is a great little reference guide to the RPi.GPIO Python library that (almost) everyone uses to interact…
Install Apache and PHP on your Raspberry Pi
Web applications developer Ste W from Wales is currently blogging about setting up a LAMP stack on your Raspberry Pi in order to host a WordPress blog. You can read the first part of his tutorial, which covers installing Apache and…
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a portable streaming camera
Anderson Silva wanted to have a go at playing around with a touchscreen and a Pi camera. So, he decided to create a fully portable, battery-powered set-up that would enable him to see the video stream from his camera over…