In these days of drone warfare, the targets of our modern weaponry can sometimes be made nameless by the remoteness of the operator. This remoteness is the target of the latest work by artist Jonathan Fletcher Moore, based in Los Angeles, California.…
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Simon Says game made with a Raspberry Pi and a Pimoroni ExplorerHAT
Richard Hayler has produced a Simon Says game by wiring up some LEDs onto the breadboard of an ExplorerHAT and then writing the necessary Python code. The LEDs light up in a sequence which you then match by pressing the ExplorerHAT…
Get to know the two Raspberry Pi cameras with these three tutorials
Les Pounder has posted a new set of tutorials on the Element 14 website that take you through using both the normal Pi Camera Module and the PiNoIR infra-red camera. The three tutorials are: Taking a picture, Creating a time-lapse…
Get started with the Internet of Things on the Raspberry Pi
The guys from Soldering Sunday have done a nice Instructable which shows you how to hook up a light-dependent resistor and DHT11 humidity/temperature sensor and take readings from them. The readings are then uploaded to online service ThingSpeak so you can…
Create a realtime security camera with a Raspberry Pi and Parse
Justin Platz and Kevin Gleason from PubNub have published a tutorial that uses the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures and then upload them to online service Parse. The program hooks into a PIR sensor to detect movement then…
Raspberry Pi robot competition Pi Wars opens up registration
The organisers of Pi Wars (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year’s event. There are two application forms: The main competition – for those…
New line following video tutorial from the Raspberry Pi Guy
Matt Timmons-Brown continues his long-running series about robots with episode 3. This episode covers setting up your 4tronix Pi2Go Lite robot to follow a black line on a white background. As usual, Matt’s video is clear and informative and he’s…
BB-8 droid comes to life with the aid of a Raspberry Pi
A team from Sparkfun have created a full-sized prototype replica of the BB-8 droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Inside the sphere is a Raspberry Pi which provides the ‘brains’ for the robot. The team, comprised of Pamela Cortez,…
RasPiO Duino add-on board for the Raspberry Pi gets first video tutorial
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV promised in his RasPiO Kickstarter campaign that he would produce a series of video tutorials for the RasPiO Duino board. The RasPiO Duino board is like having an Arduino plugged into your GPIO pins and is great…
Build a 7-node Raspberry Pi Hadoop cluster
Hadoop is all about processing large amounts of data (so-called Big Data) across a cluster of nodes. In this case, the nodes are Raspberry Pis and Nigel Pond has written a PDF tutorial on how to do it. Read it…