The Foundation have posted a lovely Christmas Shopping Guide over on their blog. They cover Raspberry Pi kits, books, add-on boards and electronics kits. There’s even a great mention of the CamJam EduKits 🙂 Take a look at the guide…
Category: Articles
Draw a snowflake with code on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a lovely tutorial using the Python Turtle library to draw snowflakes. It’s a great example of recursive programming and will certainly while away a couple of hours with the kids on a cold weekend…
Raspberry Pi Hamster Fitness Tracker
Jamie Bailey from Initial State wanted to find out how far his 9-year-old daughter’s hamster ran. He came up with a great way of measuring it using a laser (and who doesn’t love lasers!). Find out how they did it here.
Raspberry Pi Today Podcast – Pi Wars
Russell Barnes of RasPi.Today came along to Pi Wars on Saturday and has created a podcast out of all the interviews he conducted while he was there. Head over to RasPi.Today to listen to it.
Raytracing on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi isn’t exactly what you’d call a graphics processing workhorse. Craig Lindlay, however, has managed to turn it into a small raytracing platform that will generate images onto a 320×240 screen from Adafruit. He calls it the “Raytracing Minion”…
Digital photo frame with a Raspberry Pi
Greg Betz has been building a digital photo frame powered by a Raspberry Pi which accepts changes remotely. You can read all about his build on his blog.
Interface a gyro and accelerometer with a Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It’s called the BerryIMU (which stands for Inertial Measurement Unit). He’s been writing a series of great articles to support the project.…
Review of the Pi and Bash add-on board for the Raspberry Pi
Average Man (Richard Saville) has just posted up a review of the Pi and Bash add-on board. He very much likes the board and has given it a very balanced review. Read the review here. You can buy a Pi…
Fantastic Pi Wars video – The TractorBot Story
Frank Carver has just posted up a brilliant Pi Wars video – it’s the story of TractorBot, made by Ipswich Makerspace. They eventually won Best Robot Under £75 and were the champions of the Obstacle Course. (You can view an…
MagPi Issue 29 is out now for Raspberry Pi owners
Issue 29 of the fantastic MagPi magazine is now out. You can see from the screenshot above that it’s (jam-)packed with stuff so head on over to MagPi.com to download or view it.