The folks over at Lincoln Binns have been in touch. In 2014, they released an industrial-strength enclosure for the Pi. Since then, of course, there have been two additional Pis released – the 2 and the 3. They’ve now produced an update to…
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New issue of The MagPi is out now – features include robotics, wizard chess and underwater camera
The 51st issue of The MagPi is out now. It’s a great issue and features a massive robot build guide by Brian Corteil. Also covered is Bethanie Fentiman’s robotic wizard chess and how to make an underwater camera robot. It’s…
Sort your Halloween candy using the Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Vision
Building on their earlier success with the Google Cloud Vision platform, the good people over at Dexter Industries have come up with a great way of sorting through chocolate bars for Halloween. Using a BrickPi and LEGO pieces, they’ve created an…
3D print a LEGO-compatible case for your Raspberry Pi Zero
David Pride over at Cheltenham Hackspace has been busy designing for his new 3D printer. Taking inspiration from the Pi Blox case, he has designed a Zero-sized LEGO-compatible case. He’s uploaded all the necessary files to Thingiverse.
Playing around with Google Cloud Vision on the Raspberry Pi
John over at Dexter Industries has been in touch. He’s been playing around with Google Cloud services, and in particular the Google Cloud Vision API. The API is able to take an image and then interpret it to determine what…
Dirty Cow Linux vulnerability affects the Raspberry Pi – here’s how to fix it
There is a security vulnerability affecting Linux at the moment called “Dirty Cow”. It affects the copy-on-write mechanism (hence the name) and can be very dangerous as it allows malicious hackers to take control of your computer or device, including…
New MagPi Essentials books available from The Pi Hut
I’ve just received word that 4 new MagPi Essentials books have made their way into print and are now available at The Pi Hut. The books that have been published are: Learn to Code with Scratch Hacking and Making in…
Keeping track of vinyl records with a Raspberry Pi and lots of blinkies
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have just blogged this so I thought I’d share it with you. Mike Smith has a lot of vinyl records and he has trouble keeping track of where they all are located on his shelves. So, he took…
Derby Mini Maker Faire 2016 – thoughts and a highlights video
Today, I attended my first Maker Faire at the Silk Mill in Derby. Took a couple of hours to get there, and I have to say it was worth every minute of travel. Raspberry Pi highlights included Steve Upton and his…
New Kickstarter – RGB LED Christmas decoration for the Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and CodeBug
Andrew Gale previously ran a Kickstarter for a Christmas decoration powered by the Raspberry Pi. He has now re-spun his idea and has created a decoration using RGB LEDs. It plugs directly into the GPIO pins of the Pi. He has…