Simon Walters has announced the release of version 7 of ScratchGPIO, the brilliant version of Scratch that enables you to use the Pi’s GPIO pins. According to Simon, the new version contains: Background engine room stuff Support for the PiAndBash…
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Pi & Bash tutorials released for the Raspberry Pi
A few days ago, I published a review of the Pi & Bash add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Rob Boyle, who created the board, has been in touch – he’s started writing coding tutorials for the P&B and I thought…
ProtoCam+ for the Raspberry Pi – final hours on Kickstarter
This is just a quick blog post in the form of a ‘shout-out’ for Richard Saville’s ProtoCam+ Kickstarter. It’s now entering it’s final 30 hours and is already 173% funded. The ProtoCam+ is a great prototyping board for the Pi.…
AstroPi officially launched at BETT – send a Raspberry Pi to space
At the BETT education conference in London last week, the Raspberry Pi Foundation officially launched the previously announced Astro Pi competition. Astro Pi will involve the launch of two Raspberry Pis into space with astronaut Tim Peake. Tim will take the…
Raspberry Pi Wifi-Controlled Cat Laser Toy
PLEASE READ THE NOTES OF CAUTION BELOW I wasn’t going to feature this and then I thought I would with a note of caution. Here’s an Adafruit tutorial in which you construct a remotely-operated laser-pointer cat toy. The project provides…
Use the Raspberry Pi Displayotron 3000 as a countdown timer
Brian Corteil has written a nice Python script which works out how much time there is until the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend and then displays it on a Pimoroni Displayotron 3000. Nice use for this cute little add-on board.…
Stock prices on the Raspberry Pi
Scott Kildall has written a short Instructable which tells you how to obtain and print out data from the Yahoo Finance API. Interesting to those of you who like to have data sources with which to do interesting things. Read…
Life simulator on the Raspberry Pi
Ferran Fabregas has taken Peter Onion’s LED panel driver software and created a ‘life simulator’ in which different coloured plants evolve and spread throughout a digital ecosystem and are then rendered onto an LED panel. You can see the code here…
Raspberry Pi Debug Clip – RyanTeck launches new Kickstarter
Ryan Walmsley from Stevenage, who produced the excellent RTK Motor Controller Board as well as a great value-for-money budget robotics kit, has just launched a new Kickstarter. It’s for a tiny board called the “Raspberry Pi Debug Clip“. The Debug…
Public piano uses Raspberry Pi to upload recordings
In Edmonton, Canada, a piano has been placed in their Underground train system so that anyone can play it. It’s the brainchild of David Rauch (who you can see in this video) and his OpenPianoYEG project. The special thing about this piano is…