The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the next Picademy course, and it’s in Cambridge. As you can see from the graphic above, it takes place on 13th-14th July. Picademy is the brilliant concept that takes teachers through using the Raspberry Pi…
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Ipswich Raspberry Jam scopes out venues and dates
Andy Proctor (he of the Raspberry Pi Truck) is looking for venues and checking dates for an upcoming Ipswich Raspberry Jam. He has set-up a Facebook group for the Jam so if you’d like to keep informed, or want to get…
Monitor your beer fridge with a Raspberry Pi
The guys over at Initial State have written a comprehensive tutorial to create an Internet of Things Beer Fridge! By using a Raspberry Pi, some sensors and a Wii balance board (!), the software is able to determine how many…
Nice review of the Southend Raspberry Jam last weekend
Ria Parish writes for “Love Southend” and has done a nice write-up of the Southend Raspberry Jam which took place last weekend. She gives a thorough overview of the events that took place and there’s plenty of photos to give you…
Measuring humidity with the AstroPi and the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has also been working with the AstroPi. His school’s project is to detect the presence of an astronaut by measuring the amount of sweat in the air using the AstroPi’s onboard humidity sensor. He is documenting his work…
DiddyBorg with joystick control on the Raspberry Pi
The Diddyborg from PiBorg is a lovely, hard-wearing, speed robot. Richard Hayler has taken an old digital joystick he had lying around and hooked it up to a Slice of Pi prototyping board on the Pi so that the Diddyborg’s…
Minecraft ISS on the Raspberry Pi rotated using the AstroPi
Martin O’Hanlon has constructed a model of the International Space Station in Minecraft. He has then used the AstroPi HAT to send accelerometer data to the Pi. When the AstroPi is rotated, the space station within Minecraft mimics this movement. It’s…
Marvel teams up with Raspberry Pi Foundation to launch competition for US girls
Read the headline. Now re-read it. Yes, that’s right, Marvel! The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Marvel, in association with the Ant-Man movie, have launched a competition in the US, the prizes for which include tickets for the Ant-Man premiere in…
Barcode scanner and online shopping API fused together on the Raspberry Pi
Denis Papathanasiou has taken an off-the-shelf USB barcode scanner and plugged it into his Raspberry Pi. He’s then written some code to use barcode data stored at the Open Product Data (POD) project to tell the Pi what the product is and then…
Sci-Fi your desk with the Raspberry Pi
Frederick Vandenbosch is currently building a desk into which he will embed a Raspberry Pi. He’s basing his design on the console from Tron Legacy (see below). While I don’t expect it will be all-singing, all-dancing, he’s doing it in the…