Initial State, The MagPi and MCM Electronics have teamed up to run a great competition, all based around The Internet of Things. The projects must use Initial State and a Raspberry Pi to be considered and you have until 31st…
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Wearable tech Halloween competition from Element 14 – Win a Raspberry Pi 3
Element 14 are running a Halloween competition. They’re looking for creative wearable tech Halloween costumes. Winners will receive a goodie bag containing a Raspberry Pi 3. Entries must be received by midnight on the evening of 1st November. The full rules…
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
Building a Raspberry Pi-powered Pokemon Pokedex
Philip Organ, a 12-year old, year 7 student from Birmingham. He has recently been captured by the Pokemon Go craze and wanted to bring a bit of Raspberry Pi know-how to the game. So, he took a Pi, added a…
Halloween disco ball costume runs from a drone battery and a Raspberry Pi
Wolfie wanted to build a costume for his 12-year old granddaughter for this Halloween. He settled on the idea of a giant wearable disco ball (as you do) and set about building it out of suspended ceiling hanger wire.…
ModMyPi PiOT relay board for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by Average Man and Raspberry Pi Spy
A while back, Jacob over at ModMyPi sent me a new board – a relay board designed to be used for IoT projects. I haven’t had a chance to use it myself yet, but I would like to feature it…
Raspberry Pi 3 inside a Wii U handheld console
Over at sudomod.com, banjokazooie has been sharing photographs of his latest build. It is a Wii U gamepad with the innards taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi 3 and some other components. He’s put RetroPie on the finished result…
Using the WordPress API to display stats on a 7-segment display with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (Average Man) has been hard at work looking at the WordPress API. He’s managed to find the necessary guides to dig into the API and extract data for his blog. He’s then run this data through his own…
Learn to Code with C – new Raspberry Pi / MagPi book out
The MagPi has announced the publication of a new volume in the Essentials series. Called “Learn to Code with C”, the book is written by Foundation developer Simon Long and covers the following topics: Create variables & do arithmetic Control the…
Using Python to estimate your vocabulary – practical programming produces perfect picture
Alex Eames has been rediscovering the joy of practical programming and has come up with a great Python tutorial. The tutorial investigates the level of your vocabulary by importing a list of words and asking you whether you know what…