Boris Adryan wanted to introduce his children to Minecraft programming but felt that they weren’t yet ready to use Python. They were used to the visual programming environment of Scratch, however, and so the visual environment of NodeRED seemed like…
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Set up the Minecraft API on the #RaspberryPi
You can never have too much Minecraft hacking on a Pi. This is a universal constant 🙂 Seriously, though, one of the main things we’ve learnt from the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam is that Minecraft is incredibly popular. We sold out…
Nice portable handheld retro emulator with a #RaspberryPi
3Derp has used his 3D printer to create a case for his Raspberry Pi and then added a battery pack, TFT monitor and a Teensy 2.0 to create a beautiful handheld which runs the RetroPie distro. Read more/see more pics…
Capture screenshots from Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, of Raspberry Pi Spy, has worked out how to take screenshots of Minecraft Pi Edition. The previously tried utility, scrot, was unable to capture from the 3D game whereas the new tool, raspi2png manages it. Read more on…
Minecraft recipe cards for the #RaspberryPi
Minecraft guru and all round nice chap Craig Richardson has put together some simple “recipe cards” for Minecraft Pi Edition. They are: 1. Teleport2. Flower Path 3. Warehouse 4. Chat 5. Freeze 6. Block Fighter You can read more about…
Program Flappy Bird (Fla-Pi Bird) in Scratch using a #RaspberryPi
Picademy graduate (and Raspberry Pi Certified Educator) Allen Heard has recently recreated the famous Flappy Bird game in Scratch. He has now put all his lesson plans up on Github for everyone to share. Take a look at his blog post…
Write a ‘pong’ game using Python on the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great work-through and tutorial on creating the game of Pong using pygame and Python. He literally goes through it line-by-line explaining things. As he points out, Pong may seem a simple game but it has…
Foundation focus: Programming in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi
This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to…
#RaspberryPi powered dartboard
Hopefully the headline alone should have got you intrigued. Daniel Fett from Germany has developed a digital dartboard (PiDart) where the dart hits are registered by an Arduino Mega and then sent to the Pi which records the hits and…
Use an analog thumbstick with your #RaspberryPi
Carl Hughes has taken an analog thumbstick and combined it with an MCP3008 digital-to-analog converter and used PyGame to communicate with it. Nice little project to control your favourite game! Read more here