Richard Saville has been looking at GUI libraries for the Pi. He’s found EasyGUI which is very useful if you want to create something basic. There are better libraries out there that do more, but having seen the code, it’s very easy…
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Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
Raspberry Pi seeks videographer to join the team
Raspberry Pi in Cambridge is looking for a videographer to join the team: We’re looking for a videographer to join the creative team at Raspberry Pi in Cambridge. This role will suit someone with experience working in an environment where…
Build a Gibsonian cyberdeck from a Raspberry Pi and a Commodore 64
D10D3 on Imgur (and Twitter) has taken an old (non-functioning) Commodore 64, a Raspberry Pi 3, various connectors and some custom-fabricated bits and pieces and created his very own version of the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 cyberdeck from cyberpunk author William Gibson’s Sprawl…
Real sketching with the Raspberry Pi – Blackstripes
Jeroen van Goor and Johan ten Broeke from the Netherlands saw a V-plotter on the Polargraph website and decided that they wanted their own version to create works of art. What they came up with was Blackstripes. Powered by a Raspberry Pi…
Turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB plug-in dongle
Hacker NODE has worked out that if you solder a full-sized USB male connector to the data USB pads and power/ground lines on a Raspberry Pi Zero, you can just plug the Zero into your PC like a dongle and…
Powering your Raspberry Pi – a nice round-up
Richard Saville (Average Man Vs Pi) also writes for about.com for their Raspberry Pi site. He’s done a great round-up of powering options, from the easy to the slightly more difficult to manage (LiPos, I’m looking at you, stop sniggering at…
Isle of Wight Raspberry Jam – 16th October
Dr Lucy Rogers is organising a Raspberry Pi meetup on the Isle of Wight on Sunday, 16th October. The free event is mostly Show and Tell, so bring your projects, and there will be some self-guided workshop material available. It…
Raspberry Pi retro gaming inside an NES cartridge
There’s lots of retro projects out there – you’ll have seen a lot of them on this blog before! Here’s another! 🙂 Zach has taken an NES cartridge (Back to the Future… because it’s not very good!), ripped the guts…
Timelapse video photography with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Spencer Organ recently spoke at CamJam about his timelapse video rig (pictured above). It uses an Arduino in combination with the Raspberry Pi (and it’s associated camera module) to pan across a landscape, taking photographs every so often as defined…