The Raspberry Pi Foundation and The MagPi have announced the launch of another in their Essentials series of books. This one is called Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero and focuses on teaching the reader how to use simple electronic components to affect…
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Egham Raspberry Jam – 16th October – #rjam
Albert Hickey is once again organising a Raspberry Jam in Egham. This one will take place on Sunday, 16th October from 2-5pm and is themed “Winter Fun” and attendees are encouraged to bring along their projects, especially those that are…
Potton Pi & Pints – this Saturday!!! – family-friendly Raspberry Jam in a pub
This Saturday, in Potton, Bedfordshire, we are holding Potton Pi & Pints. This is a small Raspberry Jam held upstairs at a family-friendly pub between 1pm and 5pm. We’ll have some Raspberry Pi workstations set-up for you to use and enthusiasts…
New 7-segment product for the Raspberry Pi from Average Man and The Pi Hut
Today, The Pi Hut has announced that they are selling a new product: ZeroSeg. The ZeroSeg features an 8-character 7-segment display (2 x 4-character) controlled by a MAX7219CNG chip. There are two buttons which you can custom-program to do what you…
Videocast featuring Sonic Pi, music software for the Raspberry Pi
On the latest episode of Triangulation, host Leo Laporte interviews Sam Aaron, who wrote Sonic Pi, the computer programming language, based on Ruby, that allows you to create music through code. An interesting interview in which Sam teaches Leo how…
Build a retro radio that talks in riddles with a Raspberry Pi
Designed to be part of an ‘escape room’, the Retro Radio Riddle is a retro radio set with it’s insides taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi and some custom circuitry. As the user twists the dial, they find…
Build your own Raspberry Pi laptop for around $150
Raspberry Pi laptops are somewhat of a holy grail for Pi users. You can, of course, just buy a Pi Top and build it from their kit. Or, alternatively you could go the DIY route as Instructables user Prosnow22 has done.…
Raspberry Pi Zero helps to build a better Karaoke machine
Frustrated with an inability to find a cost-effective karaoke machine with enough useful features to make it workable, Harry Gonzalez-Rivera decided to take a cheaper karaoke machine and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside. He added a USB audio card and wi-fi adapter,…
Physical sequencer merges Raspberry Pi, Arduino, a toy glockenspiel and LEGO to create something magical
Hong Kong-based modulogeek has taken his toddler’s toy glockenspiel and created an servo-motor based control for it. He has then fused this with a monome interface device which is controlled by the Raspberry Pi running the Python sequencer code. Together, he has…
Follow along with this excellent PSP / Raspberry Pi Zero build
Over at OtherMod.com, the blog owner has been tearing down and rebuilding a Sony PSP and retrofitting it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I love projects like this: taking broken technology and using some Pi magic to make it usable…