Dave Akerman has taken a Maplin weather station and hooked it up to his Raspberry Pi. He used a piece of software with the oh-so-catchy name of “pywws” to read in the data from USB and then uploaded his data to…
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Low-power E-paper display HAT for the Raspberry Pi
Percheron Electronics, which is spear-headed by Neil Matthews (who regularly attends and helps at our Cambridge Raspberry Jams), has just launched its first Kickstarter. The campaign seeks to raise funds to produce an e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi. The display…
The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
David Taylor has written a comprehensive (and possibly bewildering) guide to setting up the Raspberry Pi as an NTP server (and therefore getting the correct time on your Pi). He uses various methods including a USB GPS receiver and also,…
Access your Raspberry Pi from anywhere in the world with Weaved
Weaved is based in America and is a portal that can be used to access your Pi from anywhere in the world. You sign up for an account (which is free, as far as I can tell, but may have…
Set up your Raspberry Pi to play Atari 2600 games
John Browning over at Engadget has written a great tutorial about using a piece of software called ‘Stella’ to emulate the Atari 2600. He takes you through installing the software and then configuring it to play the ROMs which you…
Review of the GoPiGo robot car for the Raspberry Pi
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written an excellent review of the Dexter Industries GoPiGo robot car kit. She takes the reader through her initial impressions of the kit, her issues when assembling it and also a summary of…
Running Ubuntu Snappy Core on Raspberry Pi
Ferdinand Thommes has written a guide to installing and using the Ubuntu Snappy Core distro on the Pi. It’s only a small guide but it shows you how to update Snappy and also how to roll it back if the…
Build your own weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Taking his inspiration from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station, Kevin Kingsbury has taken a lot of components and built his own. The station includes a wind speed gauge, a wind direction finder, temperature, humidity, pressure and light sensors and a…
Android on the Raspberry Pi 2?
Someone has been working on porting Android 5.1 (Lollipop) to the Raspberry Pi. It only runs on the Pi 2 (due to the different processor) and I’m not sure how much of it is functional. I’ve not had time to…
Raspberry Pi for Dummies – 2nd Edition review
Back in March last year, I reviewed Raspberry Pi for Dummies by Sean McManus and Mike Cook and gave it a solid 7/10. I recently received a copy of the 2nd edition of the book and have been asked to review…