The guys at Canadian company Roboteurs are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new stepper motor driver board – the SlushEngine. It looks like a stunning piece of kit and has the following features: Controls up to 4 bi-polar stepper…
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Make your own Raspberry Pi-powered drum kit
Carmelito Andrade has written an excellent tutorial in which he uses the Adafruit Capacitive Touch HAT together with a Raspberry Pi Model A+ and some 3D-printed bits to create a Pi-powered drum kit. Read it here.
Build your own digital clock with a Raspberry Pi with this Kickstarter
David Saul is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Compatible with the B+, A+ and Pi 2, the PiMuxClock plugs into the 40-way GPIO header and stands up, giving you a large…
Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi
Dr Scott Baker has been messing around with VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) which emit light directly rather than being backlit like normal LCD displays. He has worked out how to interface such a display with the Raspberry Pi and has…
Big Data on the Raspberry Pi 2
Newcastle-based Darren has written a tutorial that covers installing Apache Spark on the Raspberry Pi. Spark is a Scala library that is used for the analysis of so-called “big data”. This is the first in a series of posts and…
Limit SD Card writes on Rasberry Pi using Ramlog
It’s well-established that SD cards have a finite lifespan. This lifespan is dependent on the number of writes that you do to the card (although the number of reads is largely irrelevant). Alexander van der Sar has blogged about using a…
Low memory-usage blog platform for the Raspberry Pi
Andy Molenda has blogged about his experiences using Grav which is a low-memory footprint and highly efficient flat-file CMS. It has enabled him to run a blog on his 256MB Pi with very good performance. He has written up how to install…
WAN optimization device uses Raspberry Pi
Kiran Kankipati has posted to the Raspberry Pi Google+ community about TrafficSqueezer which is a WAN optimization device that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. They’ve provided a downloadable OS image for easy set-up and it relies on using a…
Preparing a multiple-Raspberry Pi balloon launch
Francois Dion is currently blogging about his team’s (Piedmont Triad of North Carolina) efforts to launch a high altitude balloon payload with 7 (count ’em!) networked Raspberry Pis and multiple cameras. Read more here.
Fast molecular data processing with the Raspberry Pi
I can’t pretend that I know exactly what Matt Williams is talking about in his article, but suffice to say he’s doing something very impressive with his Pi. I’ll let him explain: Substructure substance matching is, in many ways, a…