Dan Aldred, who created the mighty Pi Glove has used an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board to pick up the infrared signals for his (pretty darned cool) robot and then used the Pi to re-transmit the signals according to his program or web…
Category: GPIO boards
RasPi.TV does something different with mixed Mailbag video
Raspberry Pi vlogger and blogger Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has decided to try out something different. He’s taken 6 products that he’s been sent fairly recently and done a quick ‘mailbag’ video of them. This lets us, as viewers, see…
Simon Says game made with a Raspberry Pi and a Pimoroni ExplorerHAT
Richard Hayler has produced a Simon Says game by wiring up some LEDs onto the breadboard of an ExplorerHAT and then writing the necessary Python code. The LEDs light up in a sequence which you then match by pressing the ExplorerHAT…
RasPiO Duino add-on board for the Raspberry Pi gets first video tutorial
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV promised in his RasPiO Kickstarter campaign that he would produce a series of video tutorials for the RasPiO Duino board. The RasPiO Duino board is like having an Arduino plugged into your GPIO pins and is great…
RyanTeck Raspberry Pi Debug Clip review
Pete Taylor got a Debug Clip from the recent Kickstarter campaign run by Ryan Walmsley. He’s now put it through it’s paces by using a Windows tablet to communicate with the Pi via serial. His review can be read here.
Create images for the Raspberry Pi AstroPi HAT
Richard Hayler and his Code Club are currently experimenting with the AstroPi board and were fascinated by the way you can display scrolling text and images on the 8×8 matrix display. Richard has created a little Python/Pygame app that will allow you…
Measuring humidity with the AstroPi and the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has also been working with the AstroPi. His school’s project is to detect the presence of an astronaut by measuring the amount of sweat in the air using the AstroPi’s onboard humidity sensor. He is documenting his work…
Minecraft ISS on the Raspberry Pi rotated using the AstroPi
Martin O’Hanlon has constructed a model of the International Space Station in Minecraft. He has then used the AstroPi HAT to send accelerometer data to the Pi. When the AstroPi is rotated, the space station within Minecraft mimics this movement. It’s…
3D mapping on the Raspberry Pi
Back in February, the Foundation published a blog post about Tangram ES which an open source map-rendering engine from Mapzen. Mapzen has now gone one further and developed an example app which displays a three-dimensional map and ties it into…
Robot gardening workshop sponsored by Raspberry Pi Foundation
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…