Mark Williams, over at Australian add-on board design company Ozzmaker, has just announced that they have two new products. The BerryGPS uses a M10478-A2 GPS module from Antenova (able to track 22 satellites) which requires no external antenna, assuming you can…
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Mobile network / Internet of Things add-on boards campaign for the Raspberry Pi adds a video streaming pledge level
SixFab are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a collection of IoT boards that allow your Raspberry Pi to connect to the GPRS, 3G and 4G networks (as well as a GPS board). They’ve recently added a Video Streamer Pack pledge level…
Sensors galore in this great guide to components suitable for using with the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice post I discovered to get your money-spending fingers twitching. It’s a guide to 50 sensors and small peripherals that you can get that will work with the Raspberry Pi. Take a look here.
Free online training courses from the Raspberry Pi Foundation teach you about physical computing and primary education
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the imminent availability of two online training courses that will help you get started with the Raspberry Pi and get a certificate at the end of it. The courses are: Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry…
Pi Wars – spectator tickets now available!
We are pleased to announce that spectator tickets for Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition, are now available. Following the success of previous events, the competition is running for two days this time (1st-2nd April). On the first day, over…
Using an old television to create a Raspberry Pi fireplace
Jaret Burkett from Texas has taken an old television and placed it behind a fire grate. He’s then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to the TV, downloaded a fireplace video from YouTube and then looped it on the Pi. The…
CamJam videos from Saturday are available for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts
We had a good Jam on Saturday at the Institute of Astronomy. Andy Batey has been hard at work editing the talk videos and uploading them and I’m pleased to say that he’s beaten his record for getting them onto…
Kosovo Pi Wars – bringing robotic magic to Eastern Europe with Raspberry Pis
Based in the small town of Shtime, British Engineer Andy Moxon runs a club called Young Innovators. The club “aims to bring to life maths and physics, while also teaching the students programming and robotics”. He’s currently preparing his two classes for…
What music do birds like? Find out with a Raspberry Pi, a camera, and loads of tunes!
Elizabeth Demaray, in collaboration with computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal and Rutgers University’s Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has developed a way to determine if music affects the moods and habits of birds. Masquerading as a bird table, PandoraBird plays music…
Loop video files the easy way with a Raspberry Pi and MP4Museum
Sometimes, you just want to be able to loop some videos with no muss and no fuss. Enter German artist Julius Schmiedel who has developed a downloadable OS image, called MP4Museum, based on Raspbian Lite and OMXPlayer which reads MP4 files…