Never thought I’d ever write that sentence! The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga (which is just an awesome place – I visited a couple of years ago) have an electric eel called Miguel Wattson. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, some Python programming and…
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The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend #pibirthday
Big news from the Raspberry Pi Foundation this morning! On 28th February & 1st March, there will be a massive 3rd Birthday event taking place at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Myself and Tim Richardson, who run the Cambridge Raspberry Jam, are…
Touchscreen JavaFX 8 on Raspberry Pi
Pance Cavkovski has written a nice tutorial on programming a touchscreen interface, using the PiTFT screen, using JavaFX 8. His project involves an NFC plug-in board which scans your access card and then prompts you to enter a code, thus…
Automatically re-connect wifi on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Bain has written a brief tutorial that will help you to set-up an automatically-running script which will detect if your wifi connection is dead and then, if so, restart the service (thus attempting to re-connect). Read the tutorial here.
Animated GIF Raspberry Pi picture frame
Here’s another project using the PiTFT from Adafruit. Timothy Reese has written a tutorial over at Adafruit in which he hacks together some off-the-shelf components and creates a rather nice picture frame. He then uses Chromium in kiosk mode to…
Handheld Linux terminal using a Raspberry Pi
Chris Robinson has taken a Pi, a PiTFT screen, some hard drive enclosures and some other small components and created an ultra-portable handheld Linux terminal. It’s very nifty and it’s been a while since I’ve seen something so small and,…
Machine learning with an engine and a Raspberry Pi
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time at the moment to fully understand this one! I’ll let Liz Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation explain: Adam Vaughan is controlling an engine with an adaptive Extreme Learning Machine algorithm on his Pi,…
Motion detection with the Raspberry Pi camera
Clayton Lambert has written a nice Python script which takes a picture with the camera module and scans it for changed pixels, indicating motion. It uses the picamera library and I think it’s particularly good because you can see how it looks…
Cotswold Raspberry Jam
Andy Baker and Andrew Oakley are running another Raspberry Jam in Cheltenham on Saturday 31st January. It will take place at 95 Promenade from 1pm to 4pm. You can book free tickets by visiting Eventbrite and you can find out more…
Snake on the Raspberry Pi using the Unicorn HAT
Paul Brown has blogged about some code publicly released by another Paul Brown. The code, when installed, will allow you to play the game of Snake on a Unicorn HAT using the arrow keys for control. You can view the code…