Matt Hawkins, aka Raspberry Pi Spy, has been playing with the Pi-Lite and has written a tutorial on displaying custom sprites and animating them. All his code is available online including a little sprite editor that gives you the string…
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Using the BerryClip with Scratch and the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins’ great little expansion board the BerryClip is controllable via Scratch. Graham Taylor from the “Raspberry Pi School” has written a tutorial about this and posted it on his blog. Read about it here
#RaspberryPi connected Wireless Smoke Alarm
Gareth Brown from Safe Fire Direct has written an account of his project which involved taking apart a cheap smoke alarm and installing a radio link between it and a Raspberry Pi. The Pi then sends an email and text…
Interfacing a 16×2 LCD with the #RaspberryPi
Mark Williams has written a tutorial using C and WiringPi that shows you how to connect up a 16×2 LCD screen to the Pi. It’s a great from-first-principles blog post. Read it here
#RaspberryPi Fortune Teller
Les Pounder has been working on a Raspberry Pi-driven fortune teller amusement machine. Here’s his latest video showing it in action. Here’s what he says about it: We use PiFace to control 12v electronics, and Python to control the program.…
Review of The Pi Supply for #RaspberryPi
Matt from RaspberryPiIVBeginners has reviewed the ‘intelligent’ power supply for the Pi called “The Pi Supply” (imaginative name, I know). Interesting piece of kit that gives you push-buttons to turn the Pi on and off in a sensible manner.
#RaspberryPi MotorPiTX build and testing from RasPi.TV
Photo from RasPi.TV Alex was busy on Saturday and soldered up his MotorPiTX board. This board is a base for building robots and includes two motor controllers and 2 servo controllers along with various inputs and outputs. I’ve got one…
Pi-Lite ‘Hello World’ example for #RaspberryPi
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has written some Python code to generate a Hello World example on Ciseco’s Pi-Lite. Read how he did it here
Using the #RaspberryPi Pi-Lite LED Matrix Board
Matt Hawkins, who I met on Saturday at the Jam, has done a blog post with clear, cut-down, instructions for using the Pi-Lite from Ciseco. Read the tutorial here
New #RaspberryPi night-vision camera module imminent
The cat is out of the bag now! The Foundation is soon to announce the availability of the Pi Noir. It’s a new version of the camera module, but with the IR filter removed thereby making it a night-vision camera.…