Just doing a bit of a blog on a Saturday evening and spotted Matt Hawkins’ review of the HDMIPi beta board. Definitely worth a read if you’ve either reserved one or are thinking about it.
Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi
Jordan Balagot has created a robot that shoots mini Nerf darts. She’s used a “Romo” robot for transport and the Raspberry Pi for control of the servo that fires the gun.
Take a look at the video below or view her blog post here to see how she did it.
Learn to play the piano with a #RaspberryPi
Shane Snipe, and his dad, have built a system to teach you how to play the piano and they’ve used a Raspberry Pi to do it. They’ve rigged up a series of servos which control some laser pointers which then point at the keys you need to play to form the chords displayed on the screen. See the video below. What all the more extraordinary is that they didn’t know how to program in Python to begin with and learnt as they went along during the project’s 50 hours-or-so of build time.
Ciseco Pi-LITEr review
Darren Christie has done a quick review of the Pi-LITEr board from Ciseco. This little collection of LEDs, costing a massive £3, is great value and apart from a few reservations, Darren gives it the thumbs up.
Kano lays out it’s open-source credentials and releases first #RaspberryPi project
Kano, creators of the Kano kit which has had a bit of a rough road in the Pi community, has now stated what it plans to do in terms of open-sourcing it’s code.
You can read their initial announcement here and you can read more about their first offering, Snake, here.
I think it’s great that they’re now “giving back” to the community and I look forward to seeing more announcements from them over the coming months.
#RaspberryPi Foundation Education Fund launched
The Foundation has today announced a £1 million pot called the Raspberry Pi Foundation Education Fund. This will fund projects and initiatives for kids aged 5-18 in the 4 core STEM areas. Priority will be given for not-for-profit projects. You can read more about it here. I think this is a fantastic idea and it will be a real shot-in-the-arm to the STEM sector.