Gordon from IQAudIO has done a bang-up job at restoring his late grandmother’s vintage Roberts radio. He’s used one of IQAudIO’s own boards, the Pi-DigiAMP+ and a pair of small speakers to output music from a variety of online sources via Shairport Sync software…
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Raspberry Pi’s Dave Honess highlighted in The Cornishman
Cornwall-based news site The Cornishman has featured Raspberry Pi’s Dave Honess in a special report which covers his work on Astro Pi. Read the article here. It’s a nice article which explains Astro Pi and talks about some of the…
Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects book – 50% off with a discount code
Richard Grimmett’s book “Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects” is currently on sale for 50% off from the O’Reilly online bookshop. Usually selling for $35.99, it is available for $17.99 using discount code “DEAL”. This offer does expire tomorrow so get in…
Raspberry Pi alarm clock & music player surrounded by black walnut and maple
Peter Roca has created a piece of bedside furniture and embedded a Raspberry Pi into it. He calls it Bedbot, a Daytime Initialization Assistant. This beautifully constructed table, made out of black walnut and maple, acts as an alarm clock and…
Ipswich Raspberry Jam – 8th August
Just a quick reminder for this forthcoming event. The first ever Ipswich Raspberry Jam will be held on 8th August at The Enterprise + Innovation Hub at Ipswich County Library, Northgate Street, Ipswich. The event runs from 10-4 and is being split into…
Raspberry Pi/RetroPi gaming machine tutorial
Spencer Organ has written up a great tutorial on creating a retro gaming machine from a Raspberry Pi and a small composite monitor. It adds a nice method for building the machine to some other tutorials and brings it all together.…
Plotter made from two optical drives and a Raspberry Pi
Norbert Heinz cannibalised two optical drives for their parts, then hooked them up to a Raspberry Pi via a couple of H-bridge chips before adding an arm with a pen. This gave him a drawing mechanism that could be programmatically…
Detecting sweaty astronauts with the Raspberry Pi’s Astro Pi board
Richard Hayler’s primary school Code Club has recently been selected as one of the winning entries in the Astro Pi competition. Their code is one of the projects that will actually run on the International Space Station! It uses the Astro…
RasPiO GPIO ruler for Raspberry Pi announces philanthropic stretch goal
Alex Eames has announced a stretch goal for the Raspberry Pi GPIO ruler he launched on Kickstarter last week. What is the stretch goal? The target for the goal is 1000 backers or £6000 and, if either of these are hit,…
Aurora Borealis alert! Raspberry Pi and NeoPixels work together
James Singleton from BlinkinLabs has written a nice script that accesses data from Lancaster University’s Aurora Watch and then, if an Aurora Borealis is happening, displays an Aurora-like light show on a BlinkyTape, which is a strip of NeoPixels with a USB…