There are a couple of pre-built solutions for powering the Raspberry Pi on a portable basis. Some are actually ‘out there’, some are… a bit delayed, we’ll say. Instructables user DylanD581 has written a great tutorial which uses an Adafruit HAT…
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Create an open wifi network sniffer with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice little tutorial from Dexter Industries. In it, they use a Raspberry Pi, their GrovePi add-on board, an LCD screen and a buzzer to create a system that will alert you when an open wifi network is found. Please…
Raspberry Pi Foundation resource for science lessons with the SenseHAT
The Foundation has written and published a wonderful resource that uses the SenseHAT and camera module to carry out scientific experiments. These experiments are an ideal cross-curriculum resource for schools that want to introduce computing into science lessons (or vice…
Sweaty Astronauts – the Raspberry Pi AstroPi data comes back to Earth
Richard Hayler and his children spoke at the Big Birthday Weekend about their AstroPi project – how it was developed and the story of how their code ended up in Space! Their experiment, which uses the SenseHAT’s built-in humidity sensor to…
PiBorg launches new motor controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero
PiBorg, the small company based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire who created the Doodleborg and Diddyborg robots (as well as lots of other boards, bots and, of course the excellent turntable at this year’s Pi Wars), have this morning announced the…
New set of Raspberry Pi Zero add-on boards from AB Electronics
AB Electronics has previously created several add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. Now, they have re-spun some of their boards for the Raspberry Pi Zero with much smaller footprints. Take a look at their new range here.
New Kickstarter aims to bring retro gaming controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero to market
Tony from dtronixs.com got in touch with me to tell me about their new Kickstarter. It’s called the R-Kade Zero and it is a range of gaming controllers that fit neatly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero to allow you to…
iPhone game played automatically with a Raspberry Pi and a Gertbot
Junya Sakamoto wanted a little help with the later levels of Puzzle & Dragons (which is big in Japan). So he added a Gertbot to his Raspberry Pi and then hooked up some motors and a rig to allow the Pi to…
Getting started with the ESP8266 pHAT for the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has written an excellent tutorial on using this new add-on board from Pimoroni. You basically connect to the pHAT using minicom and then send old-style AT commands like you would with an old modem. He hasn’t quite gone…
PaPiRus e-ink display for the Raspberry Pi – a couple of reviews
Apologies for the lack of blog posts this week. There are reasons, most of which are too boring to get into! Anyway… The PaPiRus e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi was a pretty successful Kickstarter, raising over £36k. The screen…