We’ve seen it before: a Gameboy mod with a Pi inside. Well, this Instructable tells you how to do it yourself. Tim G has used a Raspberry Pi Model A and various other, fairly cheap, components in this tutorial which…
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First Raspberry Pi Annual published by Linux User crew
The company that publishes Linux User and Developer magazine has collated the best bits from this year’s articles about the Raspberry Pi into an annual. The annual costs £12.99 and is available from newsagents today. Good Christmas present!
Raspberry Pi time lapse photography captures endangered species hatching
Wellington, New Zealand resident Warren was asked to record the hatching of an endangered species: the tuatara. The tuatara is a reptile that is rapidly dying out thanks to some stowaway rats from the 17th Century. So, he used a PiNoIR…
Raspberry Pi Challenge at University of York
At the Department of Computer Science in the University of York, all new undergraduates are given a Raspberry Pi and challenged to do something with it within a month. Here’s a video that explains the idea – it features the Foundation’s…
Make a digital garden with the Raspberry Pi and the Pibrella
Here’s a great video from Carrie Anne Philbin on her YouTube channel the Geek Gurl Diaries. In this, she uses the Pi, a Pibrella, some motors and bits and pieces, together with a Python script, to create a ‘digital garden’. It’s…
Brew your coffee the renewable way with a Raspberry Pi
A group of University of Lancaster researchers have used a Raspberry Pi to only allow a kettle to be boiled when the University’s wind turbine is producing power. Dr. Will Simm, Dr. Peter Newman, Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario and Dr. Stephen…
Render photographs from the Raspberry Pi camera into Minecraft
Ferran Fabregas has worked out a way to take images and render them in Minecraft Pi Edition. He’s now extended that idea and created a Python script using picamera to take a photo and then send it into Minecraft. Brilliant…
Download BBC programmes with updated get_iplayer on the Raspberry Pi
Last week, the BBC changed the way that iPlayer exposes it’s programme listings to the web. This prevented a lot of third-party software from working including the popular get_iplayer. A fix has now been issued and Alex Eames has documented…
Home monitoring with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Eric Tsai has put together a combination of wireless, sensor-packed Arduinos with a Pi and come up with a quite neat home monitoring solution. He’s written it all up as an Instructable which you can view here. He’s called in…
South African computer lab powered by Raspberry Pis goes live
Back in July, the Raspberry Pi Foundation covered a crowdfunding project to create a solar-powered computer lab in South Africa. The crowdfunding was a success and the lab is now up-and-running. At the heart of the lab is a classroom set…