Christian Cawley over at makeuseof.com has done a great tutorial on using avconv together with a Raspberry Pi camera module to stream to YouTube. Take a look here.
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Table-top Tetris game from York uses a Raspberry Pi 2 for retro gaming goodness
John Cooper from York Hackspace has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. It uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to control strips of Neopixel-like LEDs which sit in little foam cube holes beneath the translucent tabletop surface. It’s low-resolution but it…
Get started with Android Things on the Raspberry Pi 3
Harry Fairhead over at i-programmer.info has written a nice getting started guide for Android Things, the new Java-based platform for the Raspberry Pi 3. He covers getting the image installed on the Pi and the initial connection, before going on to…
Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend 2017 – Tickets now on sale!
The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend is on 4th-5th March next year at Cambridge Junction. Tickets are now on sale and are free for under-16s and just £5 per day for everyone else. Get your tickets here.
Great collection of Raspberry Pi project resources from Les Pounder
Les Pounder, who writes for various Linux and Pi magazines and is an all-round top bloke :-), has just drawn my attention to a great list of Pi-related resources that he has written. There’s loads of projects and guides, including some…
An oscilloscope and function generator created using a Raspberry Pi and a PIC32
Advitya Khanna, Jeff Witz and Danna Ma teamed up for their final year project on a Cornell University course, Designing with Microcontrollers. They have created a combination digital oscilloscope and function generator that runs an interface on a Raspberry Pi and…
Fly colony relies on artificial intelligence software run on a Raspberry Pi
David Bowen, who is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Physical Computing at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, has created a project called FlyAI. In this artificial intelligence experiment, Bowen has established a fly colony inside a transparent globe and is…
Pimoroni announces new HAT for the Raspberry Pi that uses a new Android OS!
Pimoroni have just announced a new HAT for the Raspberry Pi, and a new operating system to go along with it. The HAT is called the RainbowHAT (full specs in a moment) and the operating system is Android Things (TM, and…
Zero-sized Solar Energy Management Module for the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a bit of a novelty on the crowdfunding front. The PiSolMan is a Zero-form-factor add-on board which will take in a power source and also a solar panel to provide constant power to the Pi. It has circuitry on-board…
South African group relies on Raspberry Pi to deliver their album… from a cliff-face
South African group Bateleur decided that simply purchasing their latest album from iTunes was too easy. So, they took a Raspberry Pi, uploaded their album to it and set it to transfer the files to a USB stick when a “secret whistle” was…