Here’s a great tutorial, and accompanying video (see below), from “Android Eric” in which he describes how to use the Firmata sketch on an Arduino and a python library on the Raspberry Pi.
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Video tutorial: read analog inputs with the Raspberry Pi
Video blogger Fraser May has done a great, very in-depth video, on analog inputs and reading them with the Pi using an ADC chip. Well worth a watch, though at over 45 minutes it’s possibly too long for many people.
RasPi.Today interviews Raspberry Pi LEGO case creator
Russell Barnes has interviewed Tom Murray, inventor of the SmartiPi case which is a LEGO-compatible Raspberry Pi case. I previously covered the case here and am a backer. You can view the Kickstarter project here. Listen to Russell’s interview over…
CNBC comes to Cambridge to talk about the Raspberry Pi and CamJam
On the 6th of September, we held a Raspberry Jam in Cambridge, UK. During that day, a news crew from CNBC attended and conducted a lot of interviews and shot footage of the activities taking place. On the previous day, they…
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s James Adams
Matt Richardson from Make talked to James Adams (the Foundation’s Director of Hardware) at MakerCon in New York recently about the Compute Module, HATs, the B+ and how the Slice is going. The video of the interview is below.
Raspberry Pi facial recognition treasure safe
Tony DiCola from Adafruit and David Scheltma from Make have written a comprehensive tutorial on creating a safe which will open when it recognises your face. You can read all about it over on the Make site.
HDMIPi team to launch 10″ IPS screen
The makers of the HDMIPi screen (which is now in the process of being despatched to Kickstarter backers) are in the early stages of developing a portable 10″ IPS screen for general sale. IPS is a very high-quality, though more expensive screen,…
Display images on a Raspberry Pi from the command line
Matt Hawkins has done a brief tutorial on using the software package ‘fim’ to display images on the command line. He’s also included a nifty example of converting your image to ASCII art! Read it here.
Pi Wars tickets still available
Tickets for the Pi Wars robotics competition are now available. Competitor tickets are currently sold out. However, we hope to increase this number so please do join the waiting list. Competitor tickets are £5 when available. Tickets for spectators are also available, at…
Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board
Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi’s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module. There are loads of different…