I’ve just had this resource pointed out to me on Twitter, so thought I’d share it with you all whilst I’m waiting to go to our work’s Christmas lunch. The SenseHAT has an on-board accelerometer, with which you can measure…
Category: GPIO boards
Prototype your Raspberry Pi Zero projects with the ProtoZero
Richard Saville (aka AverageMan) previously ran Kickstarters for prototyping boards for the full-size Raspberry Pi. Now, he’s taken things smaller and created the ProtoZero. He is now running a Kickstarter to raise funds to produce it. The ProtoZero is a…
Weather forecasting with the Raspberry Pi and the SenseHAT
Giles Booth continues his series using the SenseHAT with this rather nifty weather forecasting script. It reads a forecast from the BBC news API and then performs some text-replacement jiggery-pokery before outputting the information to the SenseHAT’s matrix display. Really glad he’s…
Roll a dice with the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT
Giles Booth has followed up his previous work with the SenseHAT to create a dice rolling device. The SenseHAT detects G-forces via the onboard accelerometer and then, when a tolerance is breached, the Pi generates a random number which is displayed on the…
Raspberry Pi AstroPi coder Crazy Squeak featured in local newspaper
Just a quick shout-out to the Royston Crow who have featured Amaideo Page-John (aka Crazy Squeak) and his programming work that has been launched into space with Tim Peake. The 10-year old, from Royston, was one of the lucky entrants in the Astro…
Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into a spirit level
Giles Booth has attached a SenseHAT to his Raspberry Pi and then written some simple Python script to generate a spirit level on the SenseHAT’s matrix display. Some great work here showing the flexibility of this fantastic little Pi accessory.…
Raspberry Pi DOTs boards now available
The DOTs board, designed by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is now available to buy online. The board, which uses conductive paint in a dot-to-dot fashion, is supplied with a plugin for Minecraft Pi Edition which will draw the outline of…
E-paper HAT used as a next-bus indicator with the Raspberry Pi
Yesterday, I reviewed the e-paper HAT from Percheron Electronics. Today, I came across a tweet from HAT-creator Neil Matthews which introduced me to an excellent blog post from Chris Jones of London. He has used the HAT to create a ‘next bus’…
Review of Percheron Electronics E-paper HAT
Neil Matthews of Percheron Electronics, a long-time CamJammer, recently ran a Kickstarter to launch his first product: an E-paper HAT. He was kind enough to send me one for review and, now that Pi Wars is out of the way,…
New add-on for the RasPiO Duino launched for the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames did a Kickstarter a while ago for the RasPiO Duino, which is a GPIO add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that gives you an ATMega 328P-PU chip (which is the same as an Arduino Uno) as well as loads…