Wolf Paulus has taken his work on speech recognition further and has hooked up the recognition text received from Google Translate to the free Microsoft Azure translation service. He now has a Pi-powered voice translator! Read about it and watch a…
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Using the PiStop with Scratch on the Raspberry Pi
Teacher Cat Lamin has written up a quick sort-of review of the brilliant PiStop from 4tronix. This simple little GPIO plug in board gives you access to some traffic light LEDs that you then program using your favourite language on the…
Vote for Raspberry Pi in the Inquirer Tech Hero Awards
The Inquirer has unveiled the shortlist for its first Tech Hero Awards, aimed at celebrating the best business IT products and people across the industry. The awards cover software and hardware products, along with innovation, events and people working in IT departments…
Automated Raspberry Pi squirrel feeder
Blogger ‘ulfster’ decided he wanted to be kind to the wildlife in his garden. He has some squirrels that come into the garden but they were a little skittish around him when he tried to feed them. So, he struck…
Graphical plot of Raspberry Pi load averages
Eric, a self-confessed beginner with Raspberry Pi, is using Python’s matplotlib library to plot data. In this code example, he uses the library to plot the Pi’s 1-minute load average on a line graph. See the code here.
Theatrical endeavour for one lucky Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ, who teaches at KESH Academy in Birmingham, had a problem: How to give a Tin Man a heart. For his school’s performances of The Wizard of Oz, he decided that a Raspberry Pi was the way to go.…
Robotic otter used for emotional therapy has Raspberry Pi as a heart
Students on an MIT Product Engineering Processes course in 2013 decided to build a product to help patients suffering from anxiety and depression as a result of dementia. It’s a cute baby otter called Ollie who responds to touches from the…
Issue 32 of The MagPi published for Raspberry Pi owners
The newly relaunched MagPi has just published its newest issue. There’s lots of fantastic content and the magazine really does look like it will go from strength-to-strength under the steady hand of new editor Russell Barnes. Take a look at the…
3D printed Spotify bear runs from a Raspberry Pi
Andreas Lindahl has 3D-printed a lovely bear and put it together with a Pi and some other components to create a cuddly Spotify player. Created as a way to get better at 3D modelling and printing, the bear has a…
Flash flood predictions with Raspberry Pi weather stations
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have teamed up with other international partners to develop 3D-printed weather stations that will help to predict flash floods in underdeveloped countries, and they use the…