Gary Sims at maketecheasier has written a tutorial about getting plain text weather forecast details using a utility called weather-util. This software is easily installed from the command line from Raspbian’s repos so you have no excuse for not getting cracking using it! 🙂
I’ve just posted onto the CamJam blog a load of links to coverage of last week’s Jam. Particularly well worth a read if you’ve not been to a Jam before and you want to know what we get up to!
Instructables user derwassi has written an extensive tutorial on hooking up a Pi to a lamp and having it act as a timer to wake you up gently in the morning. He’s called it the WeggUp (because of the shape). This project contains quite a lot of custom circuitry but is a cheap solution for something which can often cost upwards of £100 to buy.
I’ve just published the latest write-up from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam over on camjam.me.
We saw this at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam last Saturday. It’s huge, it’s heavy and it’s controlled by a Raspberry Pi. It is 65kg of robot and uses 6 of PiBorg‘s new robotics board, the PicoBorg reverse, to drive 6 wheels from 2 motorbike batteries. It also uses a PS3 controller for remote control. Here it is in action on the bench at CamJam:
Carl Hughes has taken an analog thumbstick and combined it with an MCP3008 digital-to-analog converter and used PyGame to communicate with it. Nice little project to control your favourite game!
