Don Watkins over at OpenSource.com has written a software tutorial in which he installs the Calibre e-book management system onto a Raspberry Pi and then configures it to act as an e-book server. Take a look here.
Michael Lynch decided he wanted a house plant. Being a software engineer, however, and not a gardener, gave him a distinct problem: when should the plant be watered? How much moisture is too much? So, he collaborated with Jeet Shetty on…
Chris Riebschlager and the Dimensional Innovations team came up with an over-sized build for the two-day Boulevardia music festival in Kansas City. They built an electric guitar for the event which weighs in at 500 pounds and is 12 feet in…
Les Pounder has been having a play with Laura‘s GUI Zero Python library which makes it easy to create GUIs. He’s created a program which reads in news via RSS and then displays the top news stories inside a miniature GUI.…
Alex Ellis decided to grow some cress and he wanted a way of monitoring the growth. To do this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero, a Pi camera and a cheap plastic box to grow the cress in. The Pi…
I follow PJ Evans on Twitter and he posted up a picture of his latest project: an Atari 2600 console made out of a Raspberry Pi Zero embedded in an Atari game cartridge. He has since blog-posted an account of the…
Simon Long has just posted on the Raspberry Pi website about an update to Raspbian that has just been released. The following changes have been implemented: Scratch 2.0 (offline version) pre-installed, including ability to do physical computing! Thonny IDE for Python…
Ranjib Dey loves his salt water aquarium which is home to a miniature, living, coral reef. It takes a lot of expertise and monitoring to keep this fragile ecosystem alive and to do it he has decided to bring in…
Swedish artist, Rebecka Tollens has collaborated with Playtronica to bring her “Connected Drawings” to life. As part of the Daydream / Darkness / Disgrace exhibition in Paris, Rebecka created drawings to represent her dreams. She then made them interactive by using Bare Conductive’s Touch Board and Pi…
Real-time Ethernet specialists Hilscher have invested in Element 14’s Raspberry Pi customisation service to produce what they are calling the netPi. The netPi uses the same Broadcom technology as the Raspberry Pi 3 but does so in a different form factor. The different…
