JosephEarnest has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input/output device. The software is written in Python and cython and is available here. He’s made…
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Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Picademy USA
Great news today – Picademy is going to the USA! Based at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Picademy USA will be made up of 4 sessions, each hoping to reach 25 US educators. This will be a free, hands-on…
Great write-up of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV has written a brilliant blog post all about CamJam which took place on Saturday, 6th June. It covers everything that was going on in the Marketplace and Show-and-Tell. I’ll be writing up my experience of the day…
Raspberry Pi clock and weather display
Kevin Uhlir has taken a Raspberry Pi and a large HDMI screen and then programmed the Pi to use the Weather Underground API to create a clock and weather monitor. The software will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux as long…
Mini Raspberry Pi handheld computer
The Ruiz Brothers have published a new tutorial on the Adafruit website. This tutorial shows you how to create a handheld Raspberry Pi computer using a 3.5″ PiTFT screen, a mini wireless keyboard and a LIPO battery. It’s rather nifty and…
Control a Sphero robot from the Raspberry Pi with Astro Pi
Another one from Richard Hayler. This time, he’s using Python on the Raspberry Pi to detect changes in the Astro Pi’s accelerometer and then translate that into commands he sends over bluetooth to a Sphero. The Sphero is a cute little…
Create images for the Raspberry Pi AstroPi HAT
Richard Hayler and his Code Club are currently experimenting with the AstroPi board and were fascinated by the way you can display scrolling text and images on the 8×8 matrix display. Richard has created a little Python/Pygame app that will allow you…
Arduino programming for the Raspberry Pi – RasPiO Duino launched for general sale
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV recently ran a very successful Kickstarter campaign for the RasPiO Duino – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. The Duino contains the same ATMEGA 328 chip that is on an Arduino and plugs directly onto the first 26 pins…
PiConfig – the network configuration tool for the Raspberry Pi
A little while ago, Mihaly Krich ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the PiConfig. It’s a little USB dongle that can be used to set-up the Raspberry Pi’s network settings from Windows or Mac. After you’ve set it up, you simply…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – Live Streaming
If you are unable to make the Jam today, we are planning to live-stream the talks from the Lecture Theatre. Here’s the URL: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming/ You can download the programme of talks from here: http://camjam.me/?page_id=802