Myself, Tim Richardson (@geeky_tim) and Jamie (from The Pi Hut) will be at Bett on Friday giving a talk and hands-on with the CamJam EduKits, the affordable electronics kits we developed together over the past year (you can see the…
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Raspberry Pi learning resources get a make-over!
The team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been hard at work giving their learning resources a revamp. A new template has been designed and all the artwork is in the process of being converted to a much more child-friendly…
Interactive Raspberry Pi-controlled dorm window
Devon, at EsoLogic, has created a Raspberry Pi app which detects tweets to a specific account and then changes the colour of the light in a Massachusetts dorm room, thus making the window change a different colour. The account then tweets you back…
Building a voting system with the Raspberry Pi
The folks at Joypad Bar (@joypadbar, joypadbar.co.uk) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. They got a Raspberry Pi and some huuuuuuge buttons and wrote some Python…
Scrolling text on the Raspberry Pi Unicorn HAT
Richard Hayler (who wrote an excellent blog post on generating 3D text inside Minecraft) has also written some code which will scroll text across a Unicorn HAT. Read his blog post about it here. You can buy a Unicorn HAT for around…
Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi – See your name in blocks!
Richard Hayler wanted a way to produce Minecraft-themed birthday cards for his sons friends. So, he decided to use Minecraft Pi Edition to it! He wrote a script which takes in the name you want to generate and then pipes…
An afternoon with the Pi & Bash add-on for the Raspberry Pi
Rob Boyle sent me a Pi & Bash to have a play with, so I thought I’d write up my experience into a sort-of review. Introduction The Pi & Bash is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It comes…
Raspberry Pi robot with streaming video and a web remote control
Carl Monk’s been busy. He’s taken some components that he’s collected during his time working with the Pi and has come up with a robot that streams live video and allows you to control it over a mobile phone or tablet…
Launched today: Flotilla from Pimoroni – easy hacking for the Raspberry Pi
It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
Mobile Raspberry Pi GPS streamer
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written a tutorial that takes you through the process of using Adafruit’s Ultimate GPS Breakout Board to take readings and then stream them to Initial State’s server using their API to get a…