Raspberry Pi Roundup - 28th August 2015
Zoetrope Brian Corteil has been working on his digital zoetrope for most of this year. At the recent Newcastle Maker Faire he showed off his creation. Later on, his brought...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 26th August 2015
The Big News - Sense HAT The Big News today is that the SenseHAT, the heart of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Astro Pi space mission, is now available to buy....
Introducing ModMyPi's New Case for the Raspberry Pi B+
Introduction With the new B+ board revision, the Raspberry Pi Foundation solved a number of minor issues and criticisms that were expressed about the original B board. The "spider web"...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 21st August 2015
Arcade Here’s a nice tutorial from Tyler Winegarner over at Make. It uses the PiPlay distro to give you an arcade emulator. You then add your controller in the form...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 20th August 2015
Bananas The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin was recently in Sydney giving talks and workshops to do with the Pi. As part of this, she set-up a slideshow tutorial...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 14th August 2015
Marine ecology A team from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a Passive Acoustic Monitoring device, is a sonic...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 12th August 2015
Instant Arvid Larsson has always been fascinated by Polaroid cameras, and considered buying one. Then he worked out how much each print costs! So, he took a Raspberry Pi, a...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 10th August 2015
Wooden Ryan Bates decided he wanted a retro gaming machine. Instead of going the usual route of taking an old console or handheld, he wanted to go bigger… much bigger....
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 5th August 2015
Console Rasmus Hauschild is 14 years old and from Denmark. He has created a portable retro games console with the Pi and some nifty 3D printing. He has posted up...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 3rd August 2015
Pigeons! Robert Threet is a pigeon racer from Evansville, Indiana. He has added to the high-tech equipment used for recording pigeon arrivals (RFID tags – very swish) – a Raspberry Pi with...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 31st July 2015
Plotter Norbert Heinz cannibalised two optical drives for their parts, then hooked them up to a Raspberry Pi via a couple of H-bridge chips before adding an arm with a...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - 29th July 2015
Megastructures Here’s a quick piece of code for you. James Abela has been experimenting with the Minecraft API through Python and has developed a way to create a series of...