According to the latest Education newsletter, a weather station project run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and funded by Oracle, is entering it’s prototype testing phase. The weather station is primarily a HAT add-on board with a few peripherals developed by Dave Honess. A…
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Connect an Arduino to the Raspberry Pi using I2C
Just a quickie. Here’s a comprehensive tutorial for connecting an Arduino to your Pi using the I2C protocol. Both sides of the communication is done using C, but it’s pretty easy to understand even if all you’ve ever used is Python.…
Bringing a teletype back to life with the Raspberry Pi
Robert Coggeshall (Sudo Bob) has taken a 50-year old teletype unit and resurrected it, thanks to the Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components. You can read about the build and find out more here.
Creating a Raspberry Pi video capture unit
Matt Hawkins has now reached 150 blog posts and to celebrate this, he’s written a three-part guide to creating a video capture unit using a Raspberry Pi, suitable for mounting to your dashboard or bike. You can read the first…
Adventures in Minecraft book for Raspberry Pi owners launched
Martin O’Hanlon has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with David Whale, called Adventures in Minecraft. Taking inspiration from the style and content of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, this book…
Raspberry Pi Model A+, B+ and A power comparison
Alex Eames has shot a video in which he measures the power consumption of the Model A+, the Model B+ and the Model A doing various tasks (idling, starting up the desktop, watching video and shooting video with the camera). It’s…
Raspberry Pi camera flash ring review
Spencer (Mr UK Tech Reviews) got sent a new ‘flash ring’ by Cyntech. It’s a mounting plate for the Raspberry Pi camera module that surrounds the lens with LEDs. He’s done a short review here.
Raspberry Pi controlled wi-fi pottery kiln
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted this on their blog, so I thought I’d share it with you. James Gao and his girlfriend, who is an enthusiastic potter, combined their know-how and skills and created a remote control propane regulator.…
More Raspberry Pi Model A+ coverage
Comparison photo from Alex Eames of RasPi.TV I like days like this where there’s a big news story. Here are some more articles about the A+ launch, some of which have some… interesting… comments on. There’s no more new information about the…
Raspberry Pi Model A+ launched!
Photo credit: Alex Eames from RasPi.TV The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the launch of the Raspberry Pi Model A+. See their blog post here. First of all, it’s even cheaper – they’ve gone for a $20 price mark, so…