One of Mark Gibbs’ neighbours decided to make a complaint about his dog and how much it barked. Knowing that his dog didn’t bark much when he was in the house, Mark decided to count the number of barks electronically…
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East London Raspberry Jam – 22nd October
Nic Hughes is running a Raspberry Jam, the first in East London, on Saturday, 22nd October. The event runs from 12-4pm in Barking Library and will include mixed-tech workshops on: Minecraft Programming on a Raspberry Pi. Create Pixel Art on…
Find out who’s at home or in the office by using a Raspberry Pi and Initial State
Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a “who’s at home/who’s in the office” service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi…
Wimbledon Raspberry Jam – Sunday 13th November
Albert and Cat are organising another Raspberry Jam in Wimbledon, their second. This one will take place in Merton Arts Space in Wimbledon Library from 1-4pm on Sunday 13th November. It will have a mix of talks and workshops and…
Automated game-playing solenoids highlights image processing with a Raspberry Pi
Kristian Lauszus took a course about image analysis in which students were asked to create a project to do the analysis. They were allowed to use OpenCV but none of the in-built filters – everything had to be done from scratch.…
New issue of The MagPi out today from Raspberry Pi
The new issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi is out today and features a beginners guide, an Apollo software special and a round-up of community projects. There are also several tutorials and reviews of add-on boards and books. You…
Developer seeks help to update node-webkit (NW.js) for Raspberry Pi
NW.js (previously known as node-webkit) lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. Joan has been working on a binary port of the technology to ARMv6 so…
Raspberry Pi Zero used to bring new life to GameBoy Advance
Over on Imgur, user Ryzee119 has documented the process of turning a GameBoy Advance into a Pi-powered retro gaming console. Chosen primarily because of the shoulder buttons, the GBA has had its guts ripped out and replaced by a couple of custom…
Catch those eggs in this cute Raspberry Pi / SenseHAT game
Dan Aldred wrote an article for MagPi issue 47 in which he creates a simple game using the SenseHAT and the Raspberry Pi. In the game, you play a red “basket” at the bottom of the screen which moves according to…
Using wireless modules with a Raspberry Pi to create a (very) active button game
Albert Hickey wanted to create a game for kids which would get them running around. So, he conceived a button-pressing game where buttons, mounted on tubes, would light up and need to be pressed to score points. This was similar…