Generally, if you’ve learned how to solder then you love to solder! It’s a nice skill to have but you have to keep doing it to keep that skill fresh, I reckon. Andrew Gale, who did the brilliant GPIO Christmas…
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ISS tracker with a Raspberry Pi and Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk’s really done a great job on this. Here’s an ISS tracker using a Raspberry Pi and the 8×8 Neopixel matrix of a Unicorn HAT. The Pi reads in the current co-ordinates and then plots the position on the Unicorn which has…
Interactive graphing on the Raspberry Pi using Plot.ly
Alex Eames has been experimenting with the API of an online service called Plot.ly which allows you to send it a packet full of data which it then plots into a graph. He’s written some sample code and instructions for you to…
Fixing GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has done a great guide on how to fix bent pins on the Pi. A lot of it is common sense, but sometimes it’s nice to have some advice on a common problem. Have a read here if…
Duelling pianos with Raspberry Pi play Street Fighter
This is an absolutely incredible project that mixes art and technology. Absolutely astonishing – read on! To celebrate the re-opening of the Maison de la Radio, France’s principal and historical radio building situated in the heart of Paris, a team developed…
Q&A with Raspberry Pi’s Upton and Hollingworth
Matt Timmons-Brown (The Raspberry Pi Guy) visited Pi Towers this week and interviewed Eben Upton and Gordon Hollingworth. He had previously reached out to the community to get a pool of questions, which was a great move on his part,…
Raspberry Pi sales pass 5 million
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that sales of our favourite credit-card sized computer have just passed 5 million. This does not include any Pis given away to educational groups by the Foundation – these are bona fide sales!
Pi-Top, the Raspberry Pi laptop, version 3 revealed
Ryan Dunwoody and Jesse Lozano, the creators of the Pi-Top laptop, have unveiled the latest version of their machine. It is much thinner and features a larger trackpad and specially designed cantilevered trackpad buttons. I saw the version just before this…
Reaction game with ScratchGPIO on the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler is currently running a Code Club at his school. This week he created a worksheet which helped his class make a reaction game using ScratchGPIO, a breadboard, a couple of switches and an LED. Take a look at…
Raspberry Pi space competition AstroPi continues to develop
Dave Honess of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has written an excellent (and lengthy) update to the AstroPi project. AstroPi, for those of you who don’t already know, is aiming to send two Raspberry Pis up into orbit with astronaut Tim…