Ceph is a software package that allows you to create a cluster of machines that act as a file store. Using Vess Bakalov’s work on CephPi, Bryn Apperson has written a tutorial that helps you get a Ceph cluster up…
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Fridge with a Raspberry Pi automatically orders fruit for you
American Steve Hickson has done an excellent home automation proof-of-concept. He’s placed a Raspberry Pi and camera module inside his fridge (and made sure that the light stayed on). The Pi takes a picture, analyses it and identifies whether there…
Getting started with the Astro Pi
For those groups who are lucky enough to get hold of an Astro Pi board, it can be a little bewildering when it comes to getting started. Fortunately, Martin O’Hanlon has done a quick start guide that will help you download…
New Kickstarter – Small retro screen for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Community member Arthur Amarra of aonsquared.co.uk has recently launched a new Kickstarter for a small add-on board for the Raspberry Pi which uses a Nokia 5110 screen to display data. He’s created various different pledge levels including one with a BMP180…
Coventry Raspberry Jam – 16th May
The folks at the Coventry Makerspace are organising a regular Raspberry Jam to take place every third Saturday at their base in the Koco Community Resource Centre. Special events for the first Jam, taking place on Saturday 16th May, are: Introduction to…
“Digital Twin” concept uses a Raspberry Pi to model a mountain bike
International company PTC has unveiled a new concept known as a “Digital Twin”. They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. These sensors feed into a Raspberry Pi which interprets the data and creates a virtual ‘twin’…
Train disruption indicator with lots of blinkies and a Raspberry Pi
James Singleton took a Raspberry Pi and a BlinkyTape and created a train disruption indicator. He used the London Underground API and an interface he wrote to look at Main Line delays to program the BlinkyTape to show different colours and to…
Wi-fi enabled kettle using a Raspberry Pi
FatCookies decided that he wanted to be able to turn his kettle on from his phone. So, he took an old power supply enclosure, ripped out the insides and replaced it with a Raspberry Pi and a relay board, some wiring…
Scottish Raspberry Jam in East Lothian – 30th May
A free Raspberry Jam is to take place at Knox Academy in Haddington (near Edinburgh), East Lothian on Saturday 30th May. It is being run as part of a two-day Jam Packed event run by Alan O’Donohoe. It runs from…
Camera beacon with solar panels and a Raspberry Pi
Instructables user hackbp has written a tutorial which shows you how to transmit an image over radio waves. He uses a method known as SSTV Martin 2 to convert an image into ‘lines’ which are then sent in binary form over…