Dave Honess has posted the technical specs of the Astro Pi HAT which is due to go up to the International Space Station. The Astro Pi project, which invites schools to suggest experiments to be conducted in orbit, will send two Raspberry…
Category: GPIO boards
Control the Unicorn HAT with the Skywriter HAT on the Raspberry Pi
I’ve been playing around with a recently-purchased Unicorn HAT and I was just wondering if it was possible to do this! Lo-and-behold this blog post came up in a general search for Unicorn HAT stuff. Sandy MacDonald has used a…
Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi
Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. For this, they used their Arduberry board (which brings Arduino-compatible control to the Pi) and some standard software and custom code. Read how they did…
Upgraded garden drip system with OpenSprinkler and Raspberry Pi
Cyrus Farivar has replaced the dial controller on his garden ‘drip irrigation system’ with a Raspberry Pi and OpenSprinkler GPIO board. He’s written a full account of how to do the integration, and the results, on the ArsTechnica blog. Read it…
Review of the GrovePi+ starter kit for Raspberry Pi
SmittyTone has taken a look at Dexter Industries’ $90 GrovePi+ starter kit. This is an easy way to get into reading sensors on the Pi, possibly too easy as Smitty points out. Read the review here.
Fun soldering practice with A Kit A Month
Generally, if you’ve learned how to solder then you love to solder! It’s a nice skill to have but you have to keep doing it to keep that skill fresh, I reckon. Andrew Gale, who did the brilliant GPIO Christmas…
ISS tracker with a Raspberry Pi and Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk’s really done a great job on this. Here’s an ISS tracker using a Raspberry Pi and the 8×8 Neopixel matrix of a Unicorn HAT. The Pi reads in the current co-ordinates and then plots the position on the Unicorn which has…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…
The power of Arduino brought to the Raspberry Pi by RasPiO Duino
Back in May 2014, I was privileged to get hold of a beta version of the RasPiO Duino. It’s a GPIO plug-in accessory that has an onboard ATMega chip that allows you to bring the additional power of an Arduino to the Raspberry…
GPIO problems on the Raspberry Pi 2
EDIT/UPDATE: This issue is now resolved Simply update your Raspberry Pi to fix this issue: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade There is currently an issue with using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi 2. The issue concerns the…