Martin O’Hanlon got hold of one of Andrew Gale’s GPIO Xmas Trees and programmed it as a reaction game. Here’s how the game plays out: The game is pretty simple, random leds are lit up on the Xmas tree, the player…
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Competitions galore for Raspberry Pi robotics kits
This month’s Linux User and Developer Magazine (issue 147) is a robotics special and, very flatteringly, they’ve based it all on the challenges from Pi Wars! It’s an excellent series of articles from the magazine that has proved itself to…
Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener
Chris Driscoll has posted up an “idiot’s guide” to getting a garage door opener working with a Raspberry Pi. It uses a relay board to activate the door, triggered by a web interface. Read more here. See it in action below:
Botswana environmental expedition uses the Raspberry Pi and open source resources
A team of National Geographic Explorers recently embarked on an expedition to the Okavango Delta in Botswana to gather environmental data using open hardware and software and the Raspberry Pi. Called the Okavango Wilderness Project, the expedition will create a…
Internet Meme-themed Raspberry Pi Pinball machine
Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the…
Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella
Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used. She’s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. All the…
Using the Raspberry Pi with Mathematica in schools
Adriana O’Brien has posted up a series of lessons that she has used at Kenwood Elementary School in Illinois to teach programming using Mathematica to interact with the Pi’s GPIO. Definitely worth a look if you want to use Mathematica! Read it…
Hackerspace webcam with a Raspberry Pi
Timm Murray from the Wisconsin-based Bodgery has set-up a webcam so that potential visitors can see who is about before they drop in. He’s blogged about it here.
Control a telescope with Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi
Tom Sherlock from Wolfram Research has written an extensive guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about his work which uses a Pi camera module to take astronomical photographs while the Pi itself controls the position of the telescope…
ScratchGPIO version 6 launched for the Raspberry Pi
Simon Walters has just announced the latest version of his ScratchGPIO software that runs on the Raspberry Pi and allows you to program the GPIO pins from within Scratch. According to his blog post, the following features have been introduced:…