Pi-Top, the company behind the upcoming crowdfunding Raspberry Pi-powered laptop, have just announced that they’ve finalised their design. Speaking to 3dprint.com, they’ve also announced their expected price point, which is around $300 (Earlybird backers can expect a discount on this).…
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Raspberry Pi irrigation controller
Jennifer Fox has constructed an irrigation controller using a Pi, a relay and a solenoid irrigation valve (amongst other bits and pieces). She’s posted the whole thing up on Instructables as a tutorial and also covered creating a capacitive soil…
Sinclair TV LCD conversion with a Raspberry Pi
Nathan Chantrell has taken an old, non-functioning Sinclair TV and given it new life with a Raspberry Pi. He had to de-solder some of the components on the Pi to make it fit and used custom kernel modules to get the…
Raspberry Pi Model B back in production
According to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the good old model B is back in production following a manufacturing backlog as a result of the launch of the B+. Good news for those of us who still need to get hold…
Raspberry Pi controlled syringe pump
In both science and medicine, there is a requirement for dispensing drugs and other liquids in controlled measurements, or doses. This requirement is usually satisfied by a syringe pump. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has blogged about a Raspberry Pi-powered pump…
ramanPi – Raspberry Pi controlled spectrometer
flatCat has developed an enormous project that uses a Raspberry Pi to control a spectrometer. Here’s what he says about what the machine does: Raman spectroscopy is something very cool to behold, and imagine.. The idea that shining a light on…
Raspberry Pi and Gertduino to control a robot
I’m not sure whether this is genius or overkill. Joseph Rogers has made a robot out of a Pi and a Gertduino, then added a wifi router to the pack and powered it all using three (!) power sources. He’s…
ProtoCam – hands-on with a prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi camera
Introduction Richard Saville, also known as the Average Man, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the ProtoCam. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board onto which you can attach your Raspberry Pi camera module and then build whatever circuit you want…
3D printer actually controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Several people have claimed to have a 3D printer ‘powered by a Raspberry Pi’. It has always turned out that this meant that there was a Pi in there somewhere, but actually it was being controlled by something else and…
Raspberry Pi integrated with Capistrano and a traffic light
Randy Westergren uses Capistrano to deploy projects across multiple server environments. He wanted some way of visualising the deployment process and decided that the best way to go was to get hold of a full-size traffic light and use a…