Alex Eames recently announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter – it includes an MCP3008 analog-to-digital chip and an analog temperature sensor (TMP36). Alex has now written a tutorial to show you how to use the chip…
Category: GPIO boards
RasPiO Pro Hat – new reward level launched for Raspberry Pi add-on board
Alex Eames has just announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter and I just thought I’d bring it to your attention. In case you missed it, the Pro Hat is a great new plug-in board for the…
Control an X-wing in Minecraft using the Raspberry Pi and Skywriter HAT
Scott Turner has combined a couple of other tutorials to enable you to program a gesture interface that will control a model of an X-wing in Minecraft. He builds upon the work done by Martin O’Hanlon and others and adds the…
SenseHAT gets a new e-book from the Raspberry Pi MagPi
The MagPi has expanded their ‘Essentials’ range today with a new e-book that covers the SenseHAT. The SenseHAT is, of course, the add-on board that is currently on the International Space Station. The book looks great and should be a…
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT game – Sense Cave
Albert Hickey (@winkleink) got a Sense HAT for Christmas and wanted to create a game using it. What he came up with is Sense Cave. Sense Cave is a maze with 64 rooms (8×8) containing emeralds. Some of the exits/entrances…
Build circuits with this nifty crowdfunded Raspberry Pi HAT
Alex Eames has just launched his latest Kickstarter. Following successful campaigns for the RasPiO GPIO Ruler and RasPiO Duino, he is now raising funds for the RasPiO Pro HAT. Key features This HAT’s key features are as follows: protected GPIO ports to…
Last few days for this Kickstarter to produce a Raspberry Pi Zero prototyping board
I’ve covered this before, but just thought I’d give it a final push. Richard Saville (aka Average Man) is currently running a Kickstarter for this nifty little prototyping board for the Zero. He’s already blown past his funding goal, so…
Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock with the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred has done a lovely implementation of the classic game Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock using the SenseHAT. The program is written in Python and is available on Github and you can see a video of it in action below:
Paint your SenseHAT with this script
Giles Booth has written a small app using PyGame that allows you to ‘paint’ a virtual grid on screen and then have the same picture re-produced on the SenseHAT’s 8×8 matrix. Read how he did it and get the script…
RasPiO Duino LCD kit – review
Alex was kind enough to send me one of these kits but I’m free to say what I like. This kit is all about learning how to display data onto an LCD screen from analog temperature sensors. The basic kit…