SixFab (and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The ‘shields’ are as follows: 4G/LTE 3G GSM/GPRS GPS XBee They are compatible with all models of Raspberry…
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Raspberry Pi launches a new series of first-look guides
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has soft-launched a whole series of guides for using the Raspberry Pi and various add-ons. The guides are as follows: Hardware guide Software guide Parents’ guide Teachers’ guide Troubleshooting guide Add-ons guide Great resources, well worth…
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap proves to be a versatile Raspberry Pi add-on
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs into the GPIO pins. It provides the following features: 12 conductive crocodile clip-compatible connection points High quality audio output via a 3.5mm jack A user-programmable RGB LED…
ZeroSeg from The Pi Hut / Average Man for the Raspberry Pi – review
A little while ago, The Pi Hut announced the launch of the ZeroSeg add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. I ordered one but it’s not until now that I managed to actually solder it up and have a play. So,…
Self-playing wooden pipe organ uses a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Wendell Kapustiak has built a self-playing wooden pipe organ. The organ has 42 wooden pipes (representing 3.5 chromatic octaves). Each wooden pipe is different and had to be custom-cut to play the right note. A “blower” used to cool data centres…
New Zealand student develops plane tracking system using QR codes and a Raspberry Pi
Inspired by the 2014 disappearance of flight MH370, New Zealand year 8 student Benjamin Mueggenburg has developed what he calls a Visual Plane Locating System. It is designed to overcome some of the problems with the existing system of tracking planes, namely…
2nd German edition issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi now available to buy
Raspberry Pi recently announced that The MagPi would be available in a bi-monthly German translation edition. The second issue, translated by the people at CHIP, is now available. It’s 100 pages long and costs €9.95 in print or €6.50 on digital devices. You…
DIY motorised skateboard controlled by Raspberry Pi Zero reaches speeds of 30km/h
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has been around for ages, providing tutorial and other videos. Now, he has embarked upon his most ambitious project yet by building his own motorised skateboard, controlled (of course) by a Raspberry Pi.…
World of Light – an interactive map with a Raspberry Pi
Joshua Krosenbrink works for Usabilla and he has presented them with the World of Light, a map of the world represented by 426 RGB LEDs. The Raspberry Pi runs an API that is used to send data to affect the map…
Run x86 Linux apps on the Raspberry Pi with Exagear
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has been looking at Exagear Desktop, a piece of Raspberry Pi-compatible software that allows you to run x86 apps. He has tried out the software and written up some how-tos to get various pieces of software…