Ferran Fabregas flew over from Barcelona last weekend to attend the Southend Raspberry Jam. I was lucky enough to catch his talk on his project: the LifeBox. This is a cube approximately 35x35x35cm featuring an LED matrix panel on the front.…
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MagPi magazine for Raspberry Pi owners – June issue published
The June 2015 edition of venerable publication The MagPi has just been published. Full of exciting articles and news, it is vital reading for all Pi owners. Perhaps the most exciting news is that from issue 36 (end of July),…
3D mapping on the Raspberry Pi
Back in February, the Foundation published a blog post about Tangram ES which an open source map-rendering engine from Mapzen. Mapzen has now gone one further and developed an example app which displays a three-dimensional map and ties it into…
Eye-controlled wheelchair uses Raspberry Pi 2
Myrijam Stoetzer (14) and Paul Foltin (15) from Duisburg, Germany wanted to create a system whereby a wheelchair could be controlled by tracking eye movements. The eye tracker is made from a webcam mounted in the frames of some safety glasses. They use…
FUZE BASIC v3 released for free for the Raspberry Pi
UK-based FUZE have released their version of BASIC as a free download. This version has numerous improvements to previous versions and includes support for images and sprites. BASIC may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it is still a valid first…
Robot gardening workshop sponsored by Raspberry Pi Foundation
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…
Raspberry Pi spotted in the new Point Break movie trailer
Here’s a bit of silliness for you. It looks like two Raspberry Pis are destined to go BOOM in the trailer for the movie remake of Point Break. Here’s the video – it occurs around 1:28 in the trailer and you…
Converting Twitter emotions into art with a Raspberry Pi
A few of the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists attended the Art Hackathon in Greenwich on 16th-17th May and got together with some others to create a lovely art project. The project takes a Twitter feed, analyses the tweets for keywords…
Control LEDs with the Explorer HAT and an 8-bit shift register on the Raspberry Pi
Sandy Macdonald has written an excellent explanation and tutorial for using a shift register with the Pimoroni Explorer HAT on top of the Raspberry Pi. It allows you to control 8 LEDs using just 3 output pins on the HAT,…
I’m going to the Southend Raspberry Jam on Saturday!
The Southend Raspberry Jam has swiftly become one of the best Raspberry Jams in the country. Its relaxed atmosphere and a high quantity of knowledgeable people concentrated in one place makes it one of the ‘places to be’ in the…