This is simply beautiful. Poopi and Piter have created a “paludarium” – an enclosed biodome in which environmental conditions are simulated – which contains both land-based and water-based lifeforms. The paludarium is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and 4 ATmega 168P chips…
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Remote monitoring of Raspberry Pi 2 CPUs
David has written a great little app that creates a web server on the Pi that is used to display graphed information about the Pi 2’s 4 CPUs. He has written up the project here and made the code available…
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches new Picademy@Google initiative
The Foundation has just announced a new programme of Picademy training at a centre in Leeds. Picademy@Google will take place on the dates shown below at a pop-up space known as a “Digital Garage”: 21st – 22nd May 2015 8th –…
Raspberry Pi iBeacon system for bypassing theme park queues
Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…
I’ll just leave this Raspberry Pi cake here…
All kinds of awesomeness going on here. More details here
Raspberry Pi controlled chicken door
Eric Escobar has created a door for his chicken coop which automatically locks and unlocks depending on how he programs it. You can read slightly more over at Hackaday or watch the video of it in action above. He’s posted…
Weatherproof timelapse with a Raspberry Pi
Madis Vorklaev has taken a Raspberry Pi and a DSLR camera and fused them together to create a timelapse camera. The set-up has a 3G USB modem installed that allows him to remotely access the images. Read more here.
Guitar powered by a Raspberry Pi and Arduino plays network logs
Ben Reardon saw a robot playing a classical guitar in 1988 at a World Expo in Brisbane, Australia. It stuck in his mind and he has now done his own version using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and some servos…
Use WordPress to host your own website on the Raspberry Pi
Instructables user dbrad5683 has written a tutorial that shows you how to install PHP, Apache, MySQL and WordPress so that you can host your own website on the Pi. It’s pretty straightforward. I wouldn’t personally use Apache or MySQL as they’re a bit heavy…
Raspberry Pi powered ultrasonic sensing Minion Fart Gun triggering machine
Paul Weeks has taken his Pi, hooked it up to an ultrasonic sensor and then created a LEGO contraption that fires a Minion Fart Gun when the Pi detects someone is near. It sounds utterly mad and stupid and… well,…