The organisers of Pi Wars (that’ll be me and Geeky Tim!) have just announced the possibility of a 2018 competition! Currently, we’re trying to gauge interest and find out how many teams are likely to enter. Rules will be similar…
Dr Lucy Rogers has taken inspiration from IBM’s IoT HQ and created an ambient air quality sensor that works using MQTT messages through the IBM Watson IoT Quickstart Platform. Readings of the air are taken using a Raspberry Pi Zero…
Good afternoon/morning everyone! I’m pleased to say that, following a hectic couple of weeks, normal service is resuming. So, what has been taking my time up? One word: CLOUD. Cloud is a brand new musical written by a wonderful pair…
PJ Evans is organising a Raspberry Jam in Milton Keynes on Saturday, 15th July. The event, which runs from 10am to 1pm will be held at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. It is billed as a ‘show and tell’…
James West‘s son is a big Doctor Who fan. So, his dad decided to build him a classic series-inspired K9 toy. He purchased some acrylic sheets and some other material and then fitted inside a Raspberry Pi Zero W with…
I’ve not had much experience with Docker – haven’t really seen the point until now. However, with his new tutorial, Alex Ellis makes a convincing argument. Docker is a way of packaging up software into an image, much like Raspbian…
When creating your own RetroPie gaming system, it can often be difficult to decide which of the 1000s of available games to install on your SD card. Matt, from Raspberry Pi Spy, has compiled a list of some of his favourites.…
My apologies for the lack of updates recently. I had a bit of a health problem involving a medication imbalance and it meant I couldn’t concentrate on anything but the bare essentials. I’ve also been busy rehearsing for a new musical…
Very interesting news this morning. The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation are to merge. CoderDojo is a global network of coding clubs for kids from 7-17 and was established in July 2011 by James Whelton and Bill Liao. There…
Gus over at PiMyLifeUp has written some excellent software and accompanying tutorial that enables you to turn your Pi and SenseHAT into an email-inbox-status device. The SenseHAT’s LED matrix is used as a readout to tell you how many unread emails…
