The Raspberry Pi Foundation have blogged about this great project from Germans Holger and Henrike Körber. They are using a USB high-sensitivity microphone to pick up on bat calls. This is plugged into a Raspberry Pi which records the data and allows them…
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Egham Raspberry Jam – 11th October
The organisers of the long-running Egham Raspberry Jam have just announced their ninth event, which will take place on the Sunday 11th October at Gartner HQ from 2-5pm. You can book free tickets to the event here. Part of the…
RPi.GPIO Python library for the Raspberry Pi undergoes a change
Alex Eames has been looking at recent updates to the Python library everybody uses, RPi.GPIO, and has noticed something. The old variable RPI_REVISION has been deprecated (replaced) by something more useful: RPI_INFO. This new variable outputs a Python dictionary detailing…
Create a Raspberry Pi iBeacon and iPhone app
Shea Silverman has blogged about creating a bluetooth iBeacon by using a Bluetooth dongle with a Raspberry Pi. He’s written comprehensive, though brief, instructions for setting up the iBeacon and then gone on to explain how to alter the downloadable software to…
Raspberry Pi burglar alarm for your home
Over at TechRadar, the guys and girls from Linux Format have blogged about creating a burglar alarm for your home. The system uses a PIR sensor to detect movement and then takes a picture and a video then uses an…
Cambridge-based computing museum expands summer programme
Due to demand, The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has announced an expansion of their summer programme with additional workshops and events taking place in the next month or so. A few of these are Raspberry Pi-related so I…
Build a Raspberry Pi powered arcade console with an Arduino controller
Here’s a nice tutorial from Tyler Winegarner over at Make. It uses the PiPlay distro to give you an arcade emulator. You then add your controller in the form of an Arduino Esplora and configure your games accordingly. All the instructions for how…
Detecting pollution with a duck and a Raspberry Pi
Teenagers Ben Hope, Harri Bell-Thomas and Benedict Allen from Monmouth teamed up at Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code at the end of July to create Buoy. Buoy is a small, autonomous boat shaped like a duck which records environmental conditions on…
PiPiano follow-up HAT for the Raspberry Pi launched
Pimoroni have announced the launch of their latest product, a new HAT which follows on from the excellent work of Zach Igielman and his PiPiano board. The board comes fully-assembled and uses 13 capacitive touch pads instead of physical buttons.…
Raspberry Pi fun at Illinois summer camp
In June, 29 students took part in IT camp, part of Illinois State’s Illinois Summer Research Academy (ISRA). Each student received a Raspberry Pi 2 and over the week learned how to program in Python, interact with the real world by interfacing with…