Here’s a great post over at the Foundation written by Gordon Hollingworth. It describes in details the trials and tribulations (or possible tribble-ations, for those Trekkies amongst you) of producing an injection moulded case for the Pi. This new official case…
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Official wifi adapter and new official case launched for the Raspberry Pi
I was just browsing around this morning when I discovered that the official Raspberry Pi wifi adapter and the official Raspberry Pi case have both been launched! The case The official case, which was launched in beta form at the Big…
Read temperature, pressure and altitude with the BMP180 sensor on the Raspberry Pi
Malcolm Maclean is developing an eBook for the Raspberry Pi and it’s available for you to read online. One of the sections of the book is all about the brilliant little BMP180 sensor (pictured above). This sensor, which replaces the larger…
Flappy Bird game controlled by brainwave activity via a Raspberry Pi
On 6th June, we held a Cambridge Raspberry Jam at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. One of our Show and Tell tables was manned by Carl Monk and Albert Hickey. Albert has created a game called ‘Flappy Bird’ using Python…
Portable Raspberry Pi Kinect 3D scanner
Mario Lukas’ girlfriend is an archaeologist. Part of her job is to catalogue relics from digs and Mario deduced that what she could do with is a handheld, portable 3D scanner. So, he decided to build one using a Raspberry…
Sort-of boot the Raspberry Pi from a USB flash drive
Here’s an Instructable from “techno guy” with a misleading title. It teaches you how to set-up the Pi to start up from a USB drive which contains the main operating system image. Granted, you’ll still need the SD card in the…
Teachers get together to learn about coding in class at Coding Evenings
Cat Lamin, who is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator (and all round nice person), has been holding “Coding Evenings” several times over the last six months in which teachers and experts get together to discuss and learn about coding in the classroom.…
Raspberry Pi powered ID photos with this booth
Roo Williams was tasked with improving on a company’s method of taking ID photographs. What he came up with was a Raspberry Pi with a camera module which talked via a Flash web interface to the subject’s mobile phone. He…
Disable wi-fi power saving on the Raspberry Pi
Occasionally when using a wi-fi dongle on the Pi, you may find that you lose connection when you’re not actively using the keyboard. This is because the dongle goes into ‘power saving’ mode and disconnects. This is obviously undesirable. Matt over…
RyanTeck Raspberry Pi Debug Clip review
Pete Taylor got a Debug Clip from the recent Kickstarter campaign run by Ryan Walmsley. He’s now put it through it’s paces by using a Windows tablet to communicate with the Pi via serial. His review can be read here.