Here’s an interesting Instructable. It’s a 3D-printed radio unit with a Pi inside that reads from a Google Sheet online to determine when it should play. It’s a lovely case, but I expect you can find something pre-fabricated if you…
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Plot data from an Arduino on the Raspberry Pi with Python
Rick Sellens has posted up some simple code to plot data returned from an Arduino using Python and the pyplot library. I’ve asked him to also post up the code from the Arduino so we can see both sides of…
The Raspberry Pi is heading to the International Space Station
A partnership between the Raspberry Pi Foundation, UK Space, the European Space Agency and British astronaut Tim Peake is sending two Raspberry Pis into orbit! This exciting development, called “Astro Pi”, gets even more thrilling: school children will be given…
Converting a wifi router into a case for the Raspberry Pi
Ted Hale has taken an old Linksys router, ripped the guts out and converted it into a (rather large) case for his Raspberry Pi. He’s now moved on to adding LED indicators (because everything is better with blinkies!) Read more…
Building a Raspberry Pi B+ into a vintage Apple extended keyboard
Apologies for the lack of posts over the past few days. Pi Wars took up all my energy and I’ve been recovering since then! Plus, I’ve had a few nights out on the trot which means I’ve been unable to get…
More CamJam EduKit 2 – Sensors coverage
Today at Pi Wars, we launched our second CamJam EduKit. This one comes with three sensors: temperature, movement and light; and all the bits and pieces you need to build circuits with them. Oh, that includes two mahoosive 10mm LEDs.…
New CamJam EduKit for the Raspberry Pi – Sensors!
Myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann from The Pi Hut have teamed up again to bring a low-cost electronics kit to market. Following the international success of the first CamJam EduKit, we wanted to produce something more advanced, but still…
An internet of things lorry using a Raspberry Pi
Andy Proctor has installed a Raspberry Pi into the cab of his truck so that he can send simple messages back to HQ when certain events occur. You can read more over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog.
Hacking toolbox to teach electronics with the Raspberry Pi and Minecraft
“Piper” was developed by Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Alex Stokes, and Shree Bose and it uses a modified version of Minecraft running on Raspberry Pi to walk players through creating circuits and interacting with them. It’s currently under development and beta test with…
Push a button to take a picture and tweet it with the Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written an excellent tutorial in which he builds a simple circuit with a push button and a couple of LEDs to trigger the camera module to take a photograph. The photograph is then auto-uploaded to Twitter. Read more…