Daniel Chote‘s son was learning about stars and astronomy in day-care, but was always in bed before it got dark. So, Daniel decided to use a Raspberry Pi to create a planetarium night-light! It involves a lot of tinkering and software…
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Building a Raspberry Pi-powered walkie talkie
Daniel Chote (a New Zealander now living in the USA) has built a walkie talkie for his kids out of a Raspberry Pi, some small electronic parts and a 3D case. When you press the button, you can use the…
Raspberry Pi’s Picademy and Code Club Pro come to Glasgow
This Autumn, Raspberry Pi takes Picademy and Code Club Pro North of the border into Glasgow. The events, which take place on 14-15 October, 25-26 October, 1-2 November and 28-29 November at the Mitchell Library, are part of the Foundation’s outreach programme. I’ll let them…
Build a Hadoop cluster with Apache Spark on YARN with Raspberry Pis
PK over at DQYDJ has written an excellent tutorial on creating a Raspberry Pi cluster and then installing Hadoop and some other software to do word analysis using the power of that cluster. It’s a really good example of big data…
Granny checking box helps Raspberry Pi fan keep an eye on his grandmother
Not as creepy as it sounds! James Zingel from New Zealand noticed his mother’s concern for his grandmother’s well-being. So, with a Raspberry Pi he was given, he set about constructing a monitoring device. The box, called Gran Check, has…
ZeroBorg from PiBorg reviewed by the Raspberry Pi’s MagPi magazine
The MagPi have published their review of PiBorg’s ZeroBorg, the motor controller board from the successful Kickstarter campaign from a few months ago. In the extremely positive review, they look at the features and form-factor of the board, which is…
Watch the skies with this drone-free aerial Raspberry Pi camera robot
Brook Drumm has created a robot that will crawl along a string or fishing line above a room or area and take photographs and video. It uses some 3D printed parts and a few servos and is, of course, run…
Cotswold Raspberry Jam – 24th September – #rjam
Andy Baker & Andrew Oakley are running another Cotswold Raspberry Jam. This one will take place on Saturday, 24th September from 1-4pm in the Waterworth Building on the University of Gloucestershire Park Campus. There will be a mix of talks, show-and-tell and…
Virtual reality viewing of crime scenes becomes a possibility with the Raspberry Pi
Mehzeb Chowdhury, a PhD researcher in forensic science and criminal investigations at the UK’s Durham University has been looking into the ways juries view crime scenes. Ordinarily, they rely on a mixture of sketches and photographs. Recent ideas at making…
Android Nougat unofficially ported to the Raspberry Pi 3
Peter Yoon has ported Android 7.0 (Nougat) to the Raspberry Pi 3. Apparently, it’s not stable, it’s not official and it’s certainly not what you’d call a breakthrough in usability, but it is now available if you fancy a play. You…