I had the pleasure of meeting the Aberystwyth Sailbot team at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. They did a great presentation on their work on an autonomous model sailing boat that they planned on entering into the Massachusetts Sailbot 2013 competition. The Foundation has written a blog post on the project – Read it here
Watch out for the slides they used in their presentation in the next couple of days on the PiPod blog!
Gill Clough has published some photos which show you what happened back at the end of April at the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam. See the photos here
Kalle Lofgren has distributed a series of RF receivers throughout his house to do some home automation. He has now set-up a Raspberry Pi as an RF control hub. There are extensive instructions on his blog on how to do this with an nRF24L01 RF breakout board. There are other pages on there to do with his set-up. Read more here
As an aside, there’s also a rather neat way of testing out SPI by connecting the MISO and MOSI pins and running a test script.
London-based company Kano have launched their Level 1 product. Designed to make getting started with the Raspberry Pi easier, their kit contains:
The kits sell for $99 (yes, dollars… even though they’re based in London… Sigh…) It’s not a bad price considering what you get, although I’d like to see what’s in that instruction book!
Read more here. Their site is informative, although I find a lack of contact details a bit disturbing… I still with companies would put their postal address up-front and centre!
Foundation forum member Gbaman has created an automated 360 degree panoramic photograph robot using LEGO. This is an excellent piece of work and really shows off the new camera module. Read more here or watch a video of it in action below:
Pimoroni, makers of the excellent Pibow case, have just started to sell a case/mount for the Raspberry Pi camera module. It’s made out of acrylic and utilises the mounting holes on the camera to sandwich it between two layers. Of particular interest is the addition of a mount hole for camera tripods. For £3 plus postage, it really is a great little mount.
More pictures and ordering information on the Pimoroni site
Also available is a new top layer for the Pibow that allows the cable to pass through.
