Arkatechture previously linked their coffee machine and popcorn maker to their Slack instant messages group. Now, they’ve taken an old traffic light, wired up another Pi with relays to control it, and then hooked that up to the two machines…
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Slashdot interviews Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi
Recently, Slashdot asked its readers for questions to be posed to Raspberry Pi Founder & CEO Eben Upton. They’ve now conducted the interview and Eben’s (very technical, in some cases) answers can be found on their site.
Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi
Nate Welch over at Arkatechture (bet that’s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they’ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect…
Powering your Raspberry Pi from a LiPo the right way
Powering a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery isn’t a piece of cake. Fortunately, a couple of expert hackers have done the work for you by writing up the methods. Building on Daniel Bull’s work to power a Raspberry Pi from a…
Flashing the new Raspbian image onto a Raspberry Pi’s SD card
The new Raspbian image is over 4GB. This introduces some challenges when trying to write it to an SD card. In particular, unzipping it on Windows and Mac using their built-in tools will fail because they’re a bit naff. Alex…
Superb 50th issue of The MagPi out today for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts
The MagPi has issue number 50 and boy is it a stonker! With a broad collection of news, views, reviews and projects (which doesn’t rhyme, but never mind) and a central feature on the top 50 Raspberry Pi projects, it’s…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Using the Picap peripheral with the Raspberry Pi to take a Quality poll with conductive ink
Picap is a new product from Bare Conductive. It gives an easy way to connect up wires to your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins (via crocodile clips) and is designed to receive input from conductive sources. They sent me one recently, so…
Raspberry Pi announces the introduction of Pixel – a new look for the Raspbian desktop environment
Simon Long has blogged over on raspberrypi.org about an upgrade to the desktop environment of Raspbian, the standard distro for the Raspberry Pi. There are loads of tweaks and lots of polish including, but not limited to, theme background photographs, new…
Pi Supply launches JustBoom – a range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Supply have launched a massive range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. Called JustBoom, the range includes the following: DAC HAT – a plug and play, high resolution, digital-to-analog converter (£30). Digi HAT – producing an unmodified, high quality,…