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Raspberry Pi Roundup - news on security exploits, a blinky status display and a Google AIY project
Spectre/Meltdown Two security vulnerabilities announced in recent days, Spectre and Meltdown, affect modern CPUs from Intel, ARM and AMD. There has been a fair amount of press coverage (Google it...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a bare bones portable game station, a way to get RetroPie on pi-topOS and a to-do list e-paper display
Bare Bones Portable The owner of FacelessTech wanted a small retro gaming console so he turned to the Raspberry Pi Zero. He designed a custom circuit board to house the...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a mechanical display, new MagPi and HackSpace and controllable Christmas decorations
Electro-Mechanical Gavan Fantom decided that new-fangled electronic LEDs weren’t enough for his office Christmas festivities. So, he came up with this beautiful 8×8 electro-mecahnical display. Each pixel is controlled by...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a retro gaming IKEA table, a Santa Detector and a tea-making robot
IKEA Retro Matt Hawkins has taken a reclaimed IKEA Gulliver table, added an old VGA monitor and loads of arcade buttons and created himself a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade console. He’s written...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a selfie-taking booth, a Neopixel Christmas tree and a Crowdfunded LED strip driver board
SelfieBot Sophy Wong and her husband have built themselves a selfie booth using a Raspberry Pi. The booth has a camera (obviously) and a screen which displays a facial expression....
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Pi-controller telescope, a concussion sensor and a Hyperpixel radio
Telescope Gary Preston has developed the Astro Cat which: is an auto GPIO configuring add-on board for the Raspberry PI 3 which provides additional hardware interfaces to communicate with and control...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - Build your own Amazon Alexa, try out a new browser and see how to make a Plex server monitor
Alexa! Over on HowChoo, Jeremy has written a great tutorial which steps you through the process of linking your Raspberry Pi up to an Amazon Developer account and then installing...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a new issue of The MagPi, a Twitter snow globe and a way to use a Zero's GPIO from your PC
MagPi - Electronics The new issue of The MagPi (number 64) seeks to be an electronics starter guide with explanation of the normal components and some simple projects to get...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a robotic spider, a rain sensor system and Christmas resources
Spider Computer engineering student Shoyu has created a four-legged insect robot which uses a Raspberry Pi 3 and an IO Expander Board to control the servos. He’s added a Camera Module and...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - Crowdfunding campaigns and a Pi Juice review
Crowdfunding Campaigns This week, two campaigns were launched that will interest Raspberry Pi users. Alex Eames' latest campaign is for the RasPiO FullpHAT and he’s running it as a 7-day...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a new magazine from Raspberry Pi and an old Claw machine brought back to life
HackSpace Magazine Raspberry Pi Press (an arm of Raspberry Pi Trading) has just announced the launch of their new monthly magazine: HackSpace. In summary: HackSpace is the new monthly magazine...
Raspberry PI Roundup - a Braille machine, a new issue of The MagPi and a Hackspace in search of help!
Braille Joe Birch‘s family is predisposed to failing eyesight. As a result, he decided to build the BrailleBox – a motorised Braille creation device which reads in online news stories and converts...
