Daniel Fernandez has taken a Raspberry Pi, a Polar H7 heart sensor and a 3.5″ screen and created a heart monitoring system. The system allows you to wear the sensor, which sends readings to the Raspberry Pi which then graphs…
Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that there are brand new versions of the CamJam EduKit 1 worksheets now available from the CamJam website. In addition to the classic RPi.GPIO versions being revised to feature 40-pin Pis and various small typographical…
The next CamJam event is Potton Pi & Pints on Saturday, 17th June at The Rising Sun in Potton. Get free tickets here. This is a strictly informal family-friendly event from the same team that brings you the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. The…
Tanya, from Sheffield maker company Pimoroni, wanted to celebrate the Eurovision Song Contest in style and decided to create a wearable. What she came up with was a Crown based on a headband, some cardboard and plenty of bits of…
Shashank Sharma and his team have developed a backpack to aid visually-impaired users. The backpack, called BackMap, uses an app to input the location you’re trying to get to and then Raspberry Pi-powered motors attached to the straps vibrate to tell…
Here’s a great Instructable for those who are a bit put-off by soldering. It’s a full RetroPie gaming machine, with button controls, that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero. However, no soldering, 3D printing or laser-cutting is required – just some…
UK-based Ktinkerer recently got hold of the AIY Project Kit that came free with MagPi issue #57. She’s already successfully added some custom actions to it, based on the instructions given by Google and The MagPi. So, here are links to…
The hunt for the fabled issue #57 of The MagPi continues for many people. Rumours from the deep dark indicate that The Pi Hut had some… but then all was lost. Sold out within 20 minutes. The legend… continues… For those…
Marco Della Valle has been in touch. He’s created a new website called thepilocator.com. With this site, you can find stocks of the original Pi Zero, the Pi Zero W and also (just added) issue 57 of The MagPi (the one…
Those of us who were lucky enough to get hold of the new issue of The MagPi, with the AIY project give-away, have been beavering away over the weekend trying to get our cardboard boxes to understand a word we’re…
