Dave Honess has posted the technical specs of the Astro Pi HAT which is due to go up to the International Space Station. The Astro Pi project, which invites schools to suggest experiments to be conducted in orbit, will send two Raspberry…
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Control the Unicorn HAT with the Skywriter HAT on the Raspberry Pi
I’ve been playing around with a recently-purchased Unicorn HAT and I was just wondering if it was possible to do this! Lo-and-behold this blog post came up in a general search for Unicorn HAT stuff. Sandy MacDonald has used a…
Lovely write-up of the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend from Make
Founder of Make, and all-round nice chap, Dale Dougherty attended the Big Birthday Weekend last weekend and has done a lovely write-up of what he saw and heard during the event. Take a look here. Photo: Marshals give out Swag Bags after…
Piezo ring tones with the Raspberry Pi
Roberto Marquez has written a tutorial over on the Adafruit site to generate ring tones on the Pi and play them via a simple piezo buzzer. Nice beginners project that anyone should be able to do. Read it here.
Raspberry Pi television schedule helper for the visually impaired
Hackaday.io user Chewable Drapery (Dean Walker)’s grandfather-in-law is 92 and is gradually losing his sight. In particular, he has real problems reading the on-screen television guide. So, Chewable has constructed a box and a controller, called EVA, using a Raspberry Pi…
RealVNC and the Raspberry Pi
As announced at the Big Birthday Party, RealVNC is now available for the Raspberry Pi. The software allows you to remotely connect to the desktop of the Pi via a remote PC, Mac, Linux box, Android, iOS or Chrome device.…
Raspberry Pi brings to life Adventure Time console BMO
Well-loved cartoon series Adventure Time has been used as the basis for a Raspberry Pi project. Mike Barretta 3D printed the case for the unit, which has a Pi inside, and has loaded it up with all kinds of retro gaming…
Indian state plans to distribute 10,000 Raspberry Pis a year
“The small sized Raspberry Pi will help in promoting basic computer science in the schools across Kerela,” says P H Kurian, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Department of Industries, Government of Kerala In an effort to kickstart the…
Colourful clock for toddlers uses a Raspberry Pi to teach time
Don and his wife have a two year old daughter. They’re trying to teach her the concept of time, and get her to understand that, perhaps, one o’clock in the morning is not the perfect time of day for play! To help…
Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi
Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. For this, they used their Arduberry board (which brings Arduino-compatible control to the Pi) and some standard software and custom code. Read how they did…