Following on from the success of the first Coding Evening at the beginning of this month, Hannah Mills is organising another one on Tuesday 22nd September at The Brewery Tap in Peterborough town centre. Coding Evenings are a great opportunity for teachers…
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PatternCraft – build with punchcards in Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
Gemma May Latham has been looking into ways that Minecraft can be used to explore artistic uses of textiles. With help from David Whale (co-author of the excellent book Adventures in Minecraft) she built a punchcard reader that is powered by an…
Monitor the status of the London Underground with a Raspberry Pi and Neopixels
Ismail Uddin over at ScienceExposure.com has done a lovely tutorial, with accompanying code, that mines the London Underground API for tube line status information and then changes a Neopixel ring to give you an idea of how well everything is running. Read…
Bare metal game of DOOM on the Raspberry Pi
Four students from Imperial College, London (Bálint Rikker, Csongor Kiss, Sicong Li and Toby Shaw) teamed up for their first year final project. The project aimed to re-write classic shooter DOOM to the Raspberry Pi via 9800 lines of ‘bare metal’ code (i.e. ARM assembly code and…
I2C sensor reading with Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi
Olivier Matis has written a programming tutorial which shows you how to use an I2C barometric/temperature sensor (the good old BMP180) from within Window 10 IoT. Take a look here.
Review of the Slice media player, powered by Raspberry Pi
Sandy Macdonald has written a comprehensive review of his recently-arrived Raspberry Pi-powered media player, the Slice. The Slice was created by Five Ninjas and inside has a Raspberry Pi Compute Module which runs OpenElec and Kodi. You can read the…
Raspberry Pi controlled fireworks
Sacramento-based Chris Osborn likes to control fireworks with electronics. This year, he decided to use the Raspberry Pi to trigger relays that would ignite the fireworks. In the end it didn’t work brilliantly well, but he’s blogged about it and…
Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code
California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka ScarabCoder) has created a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). He’s taken some LEDs and buttons to create a ‘keypad’ of sorts and then written some…
Mental health patient tracking with the Raspberry Pi
Canadian Bell Eapen has decided to leverage the inherent cheapness of the Raspberry Pi and the coolness of Bluetooth beacons to set-up a tracking facility for patients in mental health institutions. It’s just an idea at the moment, but he…
Ipswich Makerspace open-sources their Raspberry Pi robot from Pi Wars
Keith Ellis and the guys over at Ipswich Makerspace did brilliantly well with their robot, TractorBot, at last year Pi Wars. They won Best Robot under £75 and placed very respectably in most of the challenges. (You can see the full…