Alex Eames has conducted a series of field tests (okay, not in a field exactly) on three wi-fi dongles: the official Foundation dongle, a standard Edimax dongle and the dongle from The Pi Hut. He tried them out in different locations…
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Create a banana beat box with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin was recently in Sydney giving talks and workshops to do with the Pi. As part of this, she set-up a slideshow tutorial at speakerdeck.com that tells you how to use the Pimoroni Explorer HAT…
Raspberry Pi captures footage of rocket launch in USA
The Portland State Aerospace Society launched a rocket 3 miles straight up on the 19th July from the Oregon desert. Eventually, at around Mach 1, the 3D printed housing cracked and the camera fell out, but the footage up to…
Set up an nginx web server on the Raspberry Pi
Most of the time when you’re setting up a web server on the Pi, you’ll end up using Apache. However, sometimes you want a lighter-weight solution. This is where nginx comes in. Shane Pfaffly has written a tutorial on setting it…
Measure remote temperatures using wireless modules and the Raspberry Pi
Software developer Patrick Drechsler is interested in the Internet of Things. So, he decided to look at some of the devices created by IoT company Wireless Things (formerly Ciseco). He purchased some items from them which gave him two coin cell-powered boxes…
How to build your own ‘future home’ model with the Raspberry Pi
Earlier this year, PubNub posted about their LEGO future home which had a variety of sensors, LEDs and motors attached. They have now started to write tutorials based around the project so that you can build your very own, using…
Marine ecology monitoring using the Raspberry Pi
A team from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a Passive Acoustic Monitoring device, is a sonic spectrometer which measures underwater audio signals and records them, thus allowing researchers…
3D-printable weather-proof case for the Raspberry Pi
Prajakta Bhambare has designed a weatherproof case for the Raspberry Pi that you can 3D-print. You’ll need to get things like the waterproof rubber seal yourself, but it’s a great idea if you want to set-up a security or nature camera.…
Four upcoming Raspberry Jams – Preston, Ipswich, Cambridge, Belfast
Preston First up is the long-running Preston Raspberry Jam. This event, which runs on Monday, 3rd August from 6-9pm at the Media Innovation Studio on Kirkham Street is for anyone interested in the Pi and includes hands-on sessions, demos and the…
Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8×8 Neopixel matrix on the…