Albert Hickey has announced that the next Egham Jam will take place on Sunday 12th July at the Gartner HQ offices. Free tickets are available via Eventbrite. You can find out what happened at the January Jam here.
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Skycademy – learn about High Altitude Ballooning with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation is running a two-and-a-half day free CPD session for teachers and anyone who works with youngsters (such as scout leaders etc) on the subject of High Altitude Ballooning. The event, which runs from 24th-26th of August, will enable…
Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams
Following the success of last year’s event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a Pi Wars 2015! The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December…
Home-made Raspberry Pi robot gets great write-up
Richard Saville has done a lovely write-up of his experience of building a Raspberry Pi robot from scratch. He’s used wood for the chassis, small motors and tracks. Read more here.
Basic temperature reading and logging with the Raspberry Pi
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has written a great tutorial on using the BMP180 to take temperature readings over I2C and then logging them online via thingspeak.com. He’s provided all the code online for you to download and full wiring…
Space-age information distribution with Outernet and the Raspberry Pi
Outernet is an interesting service that broadcasts a large amount of internet-mined content via an orbiting satellite. Anyone can receive it, providing they have the appropriate equipment, on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s some info on the information that is being broadcast…
Create a Raspberry Pi wi-fi hotspot with the Edimax EW-7811Un dongle
Many people have these lovely little dongles from Edimax. They’re cheap, tiny and work very well with the Raspberry Pi. Dave Conroy has written up a method to turn your Pi into a wi-fi hotspot using one of these dongles…
Raspberry Pi dog monitor – with lasers!
Dave Young wanted to stop his dog from jumping up and taking food off the kitchen work surfaces (I can sympathise!) when he wasn’t in the room. So, he hooked up a laser detector circuit to a Raspberry Pi and programmed…
Official Raspberry Pi case – video walk-round
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has done a nice video of the new official case that has just been launched. He shows how it all clips together and how compatible it is with HATs and other GPIO accessories such as the RasPiO Duino.…
Raspberry Pi motion sensor with realtime alerts
Eric Grossman over at PubNub has written an interesting tutorial which uses an ultrasonic distance sensor. The sensor detects motion by taking constant readings and then uses the PubNub service to ‘subscribe’ to any alerts generated. Read more here.