Richard Saville, creator of the ProtoCam prototyping board, has just launched a new Kickstarter. His new board is for the + series of Raspberry Pi, with a 40-pin header, a slot for the camera module, power rails, plenty of space…
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More on the Raspberry Pi desktop update/upgrade
Simon Long is the user interface guru at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is the one responsible for the desktop updates featured in the new Raspbian. He’s written about some of the process he went through to improve the desktop…
Do-it-yourself Raspberry Pi weather station
Ted Hale has built his own weather station with some strip board and screw terminals so that he can attach whatever peripherals he needs. Read about his project here.
Water cooling the Raspberry Pi
This one is roughly in the category of “Why would you do that?” but Unprecedented has gone ahead and done it anyway. He’s taken a few 3D printed parts and some tubing and created a water cooling system for the Raspberry Pi. You can…
Adafruit start to launch their HATs for the Raspberry Pi
US maker store Adafruit has just started to release HATs for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+. The one I’m featuring here is the Ultimate GPS Hat. This sits on top of your B+ or A+ and allows you to receive GPS…
New desktop for the Raspberry Pi released
Slightly under the radar, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a new, slicker and more user friendly version of the standard Raspbian desktop. You can get the new desktop by downloading a new image for your Pi or by typing…
Naughty or Nice Raspberry Pi machine
Brian Corteil is a regular at both CamJam and Potton Pi & Pints. He often brings along his ‘naughty and nice’ machine which magically detects, when you insert your hand, whether you’ve been naughty or nice. Ideal for Christmas time –…
Embedded art installation with Raspberry Pi
Malte Steiner and Wolfgang Spahn are exploring the artistic potential of embedded open source systems. In their new project “Embedded Artist”, they have used Raspberry Pis and Paper Duinos. Here’s what they say about their project: The performance combines four…
Counting penguins with the Raspberry Pi
Cambridge Consultants and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have teamed up to count penguins in Antarctica, having previously used similar equipment to protect rhinos in Kenya and other far-off countries. Pushing the operational limits of our favourite little computer…
QR codes in Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition
Martin O’Hanlon has used the qrcode Python module and Minecraft Pi Edition together to create QR codes inside the Minecraft world. Take a look on his blog.