The organisers of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam (myself and Tim Richardson) have just announced the rules and challenges for the first ever dedicated Raspberry Pi robotics challenge competition. The competition will take place on 6th December 2014 at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge…
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Asteroids shooting game on a Raspberry Pi gun!
A couple of hackers have taken a toy gun, fitted a Raspberry Pi inside, and then used a see-through screen (like you get on teleprompters) to create a shoot-the-asteroids game. Very cool project. You can read more on Avishay Orpaz’s…
Car diagnostics on the Raspberry Pi and PiTFT
Paul Bartek has done an extensive tutorial on using the PiTFT to display data from a car’s OBD-11 port and also a video which you can see below.
Winners of the Adafruit Raspberry Pi Photography Competition
Adafruit has announced the winners of the photography competition it held recently. First prize was won by Andrew Mulholland with the picture below It’s a great shot and shows just what you can do with the Pi if you put your…
Wooden handheld Raspberry Pi
Instructables user fernseher1 has written a full tutorial on creating a handheld Raspberry Pi using a wooden case and an analogue screen. Read it here.
Highlights from the Element 14 Raspberry Pi Webinar
I’ve just finished listening to a webinar starring the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Eben Upton. In it, he talked about the B+ and all the improvements made to the board during the development process. Afterwards he fielded questions from the audience…
More on Raspberry Pi Model B+ HATs
James Adams, Director of Hardware at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has posted to the Foundation blog some official information about HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) boards that will be compatible with the B+. I previously covered this announcement on the…
Control the Raspberry Pi GPIO from Qt4
Hussam Al-Hertani on his blog Hertaville has written a tutorial and given sample code for controlling the GPIO from within the Qt4 programming language. You need to install Qt in order to do it, but all that’s covered by the…
Broadcom Singapore brings the Raspberry Pi into classrooms
Thanks to Eben Upton for tweeting this one A group of volunteer Broadcom employees in Singapore are running sessions with teachers to introduce them to the Pi and then going into their classrooms to support workshops using our favourite credit…
Evolution of the Raspberry Pi with James Adams
Russell Barnes has done a great interview with James Adams, the Foundation’s head of hardware, over on RasPi.Today. It’s well worth a read if you’re interested in how the Compute Module and the B+ came about and some of the…