IQaudIO have just released their newest board, the Pi-DAC Pro HAT. Using the PCM5242 DAC, this board gives higher quality output than its predecessors and features both Phono and Headphone sockets. Here is the list of features: Raspberry Pi HAT (A+/B+/2/3) compliant accessory…
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French car manufacturer’s open source car uses two Raspberry Pis
French car manufacturer Renault are to launch an open source car platform called POM (based on Twizy), it was announced at CES last week. What seems to have slipped under the radar is that there are two Raspberry Pis on…
Plant monitoring kit from SwitchDoc Labs uses a Raspberry Pi to look after your growing environment
SwitchDoc Labs have launched their latest Kickstarter – SmartPlantPi. It’s a plant-monitoring system suitable for families and schools that measures and keeps track of the following: Soil moisture Sunlight level Air quality Temperature and humidity It uses the Grove system…
Accio Raspberry Pi! Control a gesture-sensitive lamp with a Harry Potter wand
This is the second Harry Potter project in as many days! See yesterday’s Daily Prophet animated picture frame here. Sean O’Brien from Make has taken a Raspberry Pi and a Particle Internet Button and embedded them inside a lamp base. Also…
Robotic Raspberry Pi-driven bomb squad for developing countries
A team from Villanova University, Philadelphia, comprised of four faculty and more than twenty-five students, has developed a ‘bomb squad’ robot. The robot is intended to be used in developing countries to deal with explosive devices and uses a Raspberry Pi…
Muggles beware – this Harry Potter-inspired Daily Prophet newspaper uses a Raspberry Pi for a little Wizarding magic!
Piet Rullens Jr visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and brought back loads of video footage. He wanted to do something special with the footage so he designed a copy of the Wizarding World’s Daily Prophet to be framed. Behind the frame, he mounted…
Louisiana Raspberry Jam – 25th March 2017
The first Louisiana Raspberry Jam is taking place on Saturday, 25th March 2017. The event, which runs from 2-4pm will be held at 619 Elm Street, Minden. Free tickets are available here.
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches first Pioneers theme – Comedy!
The Foundation have just announced the first theme for their Pioneers scheme – comedy! That’s right, teams must develop and hack together something which will make people laugh! Pioneers is the Foundation’s latest attempt to engage with young makers. The scheme is…
Build a motion-activated security camera with the Raspberry Pi Zero
Mark West, a Brit now living in Norway, was convinced that he had some unwanted visitors in his garden. So, he decided to press into action a Raspberry Pi Zero as a security camera solution. He shopped at The Pi…
NatureBytes Raspberry Pi-powered nature camera comes to The Pi Hut
A good few months ago, a new company called NatureBytes ran a Kickstarter to fund their Raspberry Pi-powered nature camera system. They delivered on their pledges in the middle of last year and they’re now at a point where they have a retail…