Over on Hackaday.io, Pierre Muth has documented his build of a Raspberry Pi Zero-based camera that prints photographs on an internal thermal printer. Called the PolaPi-Zero, it uses an Adafruit Nano Thermal Printer and some other parts as well as a 3D-printed case.…
The first Kendal Raspberry Jam will take place on 25th March from 10am-12.30pm. The event, which is a general Jam in which people with (and without!) Pis can get together and share knowledge, ask questions and get help with problems,…
A couple of years ago, Ben Gray ran a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for the MeArm – a robotic arm. Now, he’s teamed up with Ben Pirt to form Mime Industries. They are now running their own Kickstarter for the next…
Recently, robotics designer, manufacturer and retailer Pi Borg ran the first Formula Pi competition. For the competition, the used a laser timing rig to record the exact lap times of each robot. They also used a similar method at Pi…
Recently, I reviewed the JustBoom AmpHAT and found it to be an excellent piece of kit for those that like their audio ‘just right’. Well, now it’s little brother, the Amp Zero pHAT has been used in a project that looks really lovely. Frederick…
Quite a while ago, Raspberry Pi commissioned designer Kinneir Dufort to come up with an idea for an ‘official case’ for the Pi (see above one of his sketches). Since then, the case has been produced and is on sale at many…
Rui Santos from Portugal has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for those who want to get into ESP8266 boards and control them from a Raspberry Pi. He uses Python on the Raspberry Pi, with imported MQTT libraries, and C code…
David Whale (@whaleygeek), who some of you will know (he goes to a lot of events and does loads of outreach work, especially with micro:bit and the IET, and also runs a Raspberry Pi club in Harlow) and Jonny Austin, CTO of the…
Here’s another tutorial, this time in the form of an Instructable, although it’s not for the ‘beginner’. It uses wires of different lengths, an accelerometer to detect different vibrations caused by plucking the wires and an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter chip to…
Here’s a good little tutorial I found on GitHub. It uses an 801s vibration module and a Raspberry Pi Zero to detect vibrations from a home appliance, such as a washing machine. If it detects stillness for a specified amount of…
