The Foundation has written and published a wonderful resource that uses the SenseHAT and camera module to carry out scientific experiments. These experiments are an ideal cross-curriculum resource for schools that want to introduce computing into science lessons (or vice…
Category: Sensors
Sweaty Astronauts – the Raspberry Pi AstroPi data comes back to Earth
Richard Hayler and his children spoke at the Big Birthday Weekend about their AstroPi project – how it was developed and the story of how their code ended up in Space! Their experiment, which uses the SenseHAT’s built-in humidity sensor to…
Indian students’ air pollution network uses Raspberry Pi to bring it all together
Students at the National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India, are using a Raspberry Pi to bring together air quality readings and make them available on the internet. The students (Richie John, Shishir Sheshadri and Aparna Velampudi, who are studying Electronics…
Girl Scout cookies protected by a Raspberry Pi
Jamie over at Initial State has posted a great new tutorial which uses an ultrasonic sensor with a GrovePi board to keep an eye on a stash of Girl Scout cookies. When an intruder is detected, the IS service is…
Swarming robot boats powered by Raspberry Pis
Dr Anders Lyhne Christensen, from BioMachines Lab of the Institute of Telecommunications in Portugal has developed a swarm of aquatic robots and they are all powered by Raspberry Pis. They communicate with each other over an adhoc wireless network. The boats…
Portable Raspberry Pi Geiger counter
Jeff Cartwright has put together a lovely Instructable for creating a portable Geiger counter using a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit, which communicates over serial to the Pi, added a PiTFT to display things on and then fashioned a…
Improved hot tub controller run by a Raspberry Pi
Ted Hale has improved upon his Hot Tub Controller. The latest iteration is mounted directly next to the tub and does the following: Monitor the water temperature Turn a circulation pump and heater on to heat the water as needed…
Read analog sensors with the MCP3008 and GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames recently announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter – it includes an MCP3008 analog-to-digital chip and an analog temperature sensor (TMP36). Alex has now written a tutorial to show you how to use the chip…
RasPiO Pro Hat – new reward level launched for Raspberry Pi add-on board
Alex Eames has just announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter and I just thought I’d bring it to your attention. In case you missed it, the Pro Hat is a great new plug-in board for the…
Build a physical dashboard with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nice tutorial from Adafruit. They’ve taken several of their own products (as they normally do) and created a physical dashboard with lots of digital numeric readouts and even a swingometer that uses a motor to move an…