This is an absolutely incredible project that mixes art and technology. Absolutely astonishing – read on! To celebrate the re-opening of the Maison de la Radio, France’s principal and historical radio building situated in the heart of Paris, a team developed…
Category: Games
Great review for Adventures in Minecraft book
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon’s “Adventures in Minecraft” is fast becoming the de-facto book for learning to program Minecraft through Python. In her ecstatic review of the book, Maryann Goldman of GeekMom.com takes us through the first few chapters which she…
Seven segment Raspberry Pi Ping-Pong
JCR Matos has created a circuit layout in Fritzing for a ping-pong game that you can reproduce for a bit of fun with your Pi. You need several components, including driver chips for the seven-segment displays. He’s included all the…
Improved emulator performance on the Raspberry Pi 2
The Foundation have blogged about some advances in the field of emulation since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. According to them, the CPU performance of previous models of the Pi meant that only 3rd and 4th generation games…
Running a Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 2
Martin O’Hanlon, Minecraft hacker extraordinaire, wanted to see if the Pi 2’s better CPU and upgraded memory ran a Minecraft server any better than the B+. He’s documented the procedure on his blog including how to download a vanilla server (or…
Teaching literature with the Raspberry Pi
Thanks to Helen over at the Foundation for blogging about this Sarah Roman’s high school class in New Jersey, USA is currently studying Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In an effort to promote digital literacy within her class she is looking to…
Raspberry Pi Wifi-Controlled Cat Laser Toy
PLEASE READ THE NOTES OF CAUTION BELOW I wasn’t going to feature this and then I thought I would with a note of caution. Here’s an Adafruit tutorial in which you construct a remotely-operated laser-pointer cat toy. The project provides…
Building a voting system with the Raspberry Pi
The folks at Joypad Bar (@joypadbar, joypadbar.co.uk) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. They got a Raspberry Pi and some huuuuuuge buttons and wrote some Python…
Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi – See your name in blocks!
Richard Hayler wanted a way to produce Minecraft-themed birthday cards for his sons friends. So, he decided to use Minecraft Pi Edition to it! He wrote a script which takes in the name you want to generate and then pipes…
Snake on the Raspberry Pi using the Unicorn HAT
Paul Brown has blogged about some code publicly released by another Paul Brown. The code, when installed, will allow you to play the game of Snake on a Unicorn HAT using the arrow keys for control. You can view the code…