Sergey Sharybin and Martijn Berger from Blender presented this awesome bug-o-meter at the recent Blender Conference. It uses a Raspberry Pi and nixie tubes to display the number of bugs being worked on currently. Read more here.
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Successful training for teachers at Raspberry Pi Picademy
Spencer Organ, better known on Twitter by his handle @Mruktechreviews, has posted up about his experience at Picademy this week. He describes everything about his time at Pi Towers, including the activities the teachers got up to, the training sessions, the…
Monitor your home network usage from a Raspberry Pi
Rotem Tamir has blogged about a way to use your Pi, Firebase, AngularJS and some Python to monitor your home wifi network. It’s a full tutorial and should take about an hour for you to replicate it. Read the tutorial here.
Raspberry Pi enthusiast Andrew Mulholland wins TalkTalk prizes
On Tuesday, young Pi enthusiast and teacher-of-code Andrew Mulholland travelled to London to take part in the awards ceremony for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes 2014 in the House of Commons. As well as receiving the Next Generation prize, Andrew also walked…
Interview with Raspberry Pi celeb Ryan Walmsley
Ryan Walmsley, creator of Rastrack.co.uk,managing director of Ryanteck Ltd and all-round nice chap has been interviewed by Russell Barnes from RasPi.Today and spoken about some of his accomplishments and challenges over the past couple of years, especially in light of the…
Blackpool Raspberry Jam – 8th November
Les Pounder is organising another Blackpool Raspberry Jam at the Palatine Library. It takes place between 1pm and 4pm on 8th November. You can book free tickets here.
Rawwwwrgghh! Hacking dinosaurs with the Raspberry Pi
Dr Lucy Rogers got together with a group of makers at Blackgang Chine, a Theme Park on the Isle of Wight, to take control of their animatronic dinosaurs. She and some helpers first of all taught the makers and staff how…
Set-up wifi on your Raspberry Pi from the command line
Richard, the Average Man, has written a straight-forward tutorial that takes you through the process of setting up wifi from the command line. Read how to do it here.
Stereo depth perception with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has posted a lovely explanation of a project carried out by Argon Design. They were given a Compute Module and development board and hooked up two camera modules to it. They then wrote an algorithm to…
Surveillance jacket controlled by Raspberry Pi
South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yung Hun, together with costume designer Jehee Sheen, have created a jacket embedded with dozens of cameras which can be used to capture a 360-degree picture of the wearer’s environment. At the…