Linux Voice have scored a great interview with Eben Upton about the recently launched A+. The new board, which is unbearably cute and almost square, is ideal for robotics and embedded projects. One of the interesting points in the interview is…
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Create an Internet of Things device using Java on the Raspberry Pi
Jose Cruz from Oracle has written a wiring and programming tutorial to read a flame sensor, movement sensor (PIR) and an ultrasonic distance sensor using Java ME 8. Read the tutorial here.
Make your own Raspberry Pi trail camera
Over at NestBoxTech, they’re doing a series on building your own ‘trail camera’ with a Raspberry Pi. The trail cam is triggered by movement, which then results in a captured image. The whole thing uses the piCamera Python library. It’s…
Minecraft Pi Edition worksheet
Martin O’Hanlon has generously shared the Minecraft: Pi Edition worksheet that he uses during Jams, at schools and at other events. You can download the worksheet from his blog. His book (co-written with David Whale) which goes further into Minecaft, is…
Take photographs and convert them to ASCII on the Raspberry Pi
Pete Taylor has extended his Holga camera project by using a script by Steven Kay to convert images into ASCII art. You can see Pete’s modified version of the script here.
Light bar for Raspberry Pi, Arduino etc
Paul Brown of MyPiFi.net has been running Kickstarters for a while now. First of all he did a simple LED-and-button board and then moved onto a plugin board to run an LCD screen. This time, he has created a generic…
Beat the Buzzer with the Raspberry Pi
Dave Patterson and his primary school class have constructed a beat-the-buzzer game for their local school Christmas fair. It uses an expansion board from ModMyPi to protect the Pi from static electricity and Dave has programmed the whole thing in Python,…
The Raspberry Pi – bringing programming back
Stuart Leithes from ITV News has done a lovely report in which he interviews Gordon Hollingworth of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Jason from Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History about bringing programming back into education and how this is being…
PiBorg launch new Raspberry Pi-powered robot
Cambridgeshire-based PiBorg have just announced a new product. Say hello to the Diddyborg – Doodleborg’s younger brother. Here’s a picture of Doodleborg for comparison: Here are some of the specs of the Diddyborg from their site. Chassis: Robust Laser cut…
The Raspberry Pi Family – a virtual museum-in-the-making
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has collected together all the variants of Raspberry Pi he owns and done a nifty review of the differences and features of each. Take a look here. I’m amazed to say I’ve got the only one…