Craig at Arghbox has written a tutorial that allows you to build a potato-driven interface. By utilising a touch-capacitance sensor from Adafruit and plugging wires into potatoes, the system can determine whether or not you are touching the potato! Read…
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Preview of the PiGlow board for the #RaspberryPi
A few days ago, I featured Pimoroni’s PiGlow as a product to watch out for. This little £9 board gives you 18 independently-controlled LEDs and can fit inside a Pibow case. Pre-launch boards have now been sent out and Gordon Henderson (of…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – 20th July 2013 – My write-up! #raspberrypi #raspberryjam
Note: This is very long… Grab a coffee. It took a while to write! Around 50 Raspberry Pi enthusiasts descended on the Milton Road Science Park headquarters of Cambridge Consultants on Saturday for the 2nd 2013 Cambridge Raspberry Jam. I’d…
RAPIRO – turn your #RaspberryPi into a cute robot
The Foundation just featured this on their blog and I thought I’d follow suit. Shota Ishiwatari has just started a Kickstarter project to fund the RAPIRO. This is a dangerously cute white robot with a Raspberry Pi as its brain…
#RaspberryPi-powered Antique Telegraph Sounder dings when a sale is made
Patrick Schless has been working for the last 9 months on a project involving an antique telegraph sounder and a Raspberry Pi. He’s created a PCB to handle the interface between the Pi and the sounder and written code to…
#RaspberryPi enabled robot claw game
Stevenage-based Ryan Walmsley (he of rastrack.co.uk fame!) is developing a Raspberry Pi-based version of the classic arcade claw game. The game uses physical controls to manipulate a claw in a cabinet to grab prizes in the hopper below. An Arduino…
#RaspberryPi robot with added Missile Launcher
Just a quickie. Simon Walters has created a Scratch-remote-controlled robot that fires a BigTrak missile launcher.
#RaspberryPi cameos on US primetime television show
A few people noticed that a recent episode of the TV show ‘Revolution’ (the one where all electronic equipment dies) featured a slightly modified Raspberry Pi. Here’s a screengrab courtesy of Engadget. And another courtesy of Adafruit:
Bletchley Park, in Lego
This isn’t strictly Pi-related, but should be interesting to you anyway, especially MK Jammers. James Pegrum is exploring the elite codebreaking facility Bletchley Park by using LEGO to create scenes of massive computers and workers rushing about. He’s been doing…
#RaspberryPi and Rainbowduino make for psychedelic helmet
Ryan Longo and Michael Vogt have teamed up to create a Daft Punk-inspired helmet powered by a Raspberry Pi and using several I2C-capable Rainbowduinos. Read more about the project here and watch the demonstration video.