David Watts had an old Casio TV 880 unit and he wondered if he could use it as a display for a Raspberry Pi. The Casio has a composite input which can be used, and handily the Pi has a…
YouTube player uses an old Casio TV 880 and a Raspberry Pi Zero
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Picademy USA expands with four venues and eight dates for future Raspberry Pi Certified Educators
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that they are to run more free Picademies for educators in the USA this Spring. The eight courses will be run in Rhode Island, California, Michigan and Idaho, two days per course, and at…
4tronix seeks to save your Raspberry Pi GPIO pins with this intercept board
4tronix have just announced the availability of a board that will allow you to use your Raspberry Pi’s spare GPIO pins when using a HAT. For a while, several boards, such as the SenseHAT, have hogged the entire GPIO when they’re…
Raspberry Pi education team online courses available today – go and learn something new!
Just a quick reminder that the two Raspberry Pi/Future Learn online courses are available as of today. Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python Teaching Programming in Primary Schools – particularly for existing primary school teachers looking to broaden their…
Pi Wars – the untold story – find out more about the Raspberry Pi robotics challenge competition
As I’m sure most of you know, myself and Tim Richardson run an event called Pi Wars which is a Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition. Well, over on the DesignSpark Raspberry Pi Tech Hub, I’ve written a fairly lengthy piece about the…
Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend schedule published!
On 4th-5th March, Raspberry Pi will be hosting a 5th birthday celebration for both itself and Code Club at Cambridge Junction. If you haven’t got your tickets yet, it might be a good idea to do so as apparently they’re selling…
Make your own green-screen photo booth with a Raspberry Pi
Albert Hickey recently went to a Raspberry Jam and took along with him his latest project: a green-screen photo booth. The booth, which runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, uses Imagemagick to remove the colour green (provided by a green backdrop purchased from…
RealVNC offers worldwide connectivity for the Raspberry Pi for free
Andy Clark from RealVNC has just guest-blogged over at the Raspberry Pi website about the new version of VNC that is available now for the Raspberry Pi. And it’s available for free from the Raspbian repositories, meaning you can just type…
Collect the Dots game using the SenseHAT and Scratch on a Raspberry Pi
Albert Hickey is a big fan of using the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi and also of using Scratch, the visual programming language. So, he decided to use both with this simple game. You’re presented with a blue dot (which is…
Use an Altoids tin to create a portable Raspberry Pi Zero workstation
Matt Wagner has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a RedBear IoT HAT for wifi connectivity, a 2″ Adafruit screen and some power circuitry and fitted everything into an Altoids Tin, thus creating a portable Pi workstation. It’s even got a…