Cambridge News have done a nice piece on this ecology project from the Zoological Society of London. They have partnered up with Cambridge Consultants (who recently hosted our second Cambridge Raspberry Jam to great success) to create remote cameras which…
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Using a Nokia 5110 LCD screen as a #RaspberryPi temperature monitor
Just a quick blog – Bart Bania has blogged about getting a small Nokia 5110 LCD screen to work with the Raspberry Pi and lots and lots of resistors š Read all about it here
New expansion board for #RaspberryPi announced by Element14 – chipKIT Pi
Just saw this on the blogosphere so thought I’d share it. Element 14/Farnell have just announced that they’re asking for people to register interest in a new product. I’ll just copy-paste in from their site: chipKITā¢ Pi (Designed for Raspberry…
Go Back to the Future with a #RaspberryPi and LED Time Circuits
Vince Weaver is working on implementing a set of Back to the Future-style time circuits with his Pi. It’s in the beginning stages, but looks very promising. He’s looking to build a circuit board from the project but, quite frankly,…
The World’s smallest Mac has a #RaspberryPi under the hood
I spotted this a day before the Foundation posted about it, but I just couldn’t believe that it was Pi related. It’s a tiny tiny tiny Mac, or rather it looks like a Mac but it’s actually a stylish case…
Capacitive touch potatoes on the #RaspberryPi
Craig at Arghbox has written a tutorial that allows you to build a potato-driven interface. By utilising a touch-capacitance sensor from Adafruit and plugging wires into potatoes, the system can determine whether or not you are touching the potato! Read…
Solar powered #RaspberryPi
Jay Doscher has written a blog post about powering your outdoors Raspberry Pi with solar panels from Adafruit.Ā Read more here
#RaspberryPi tracker website Rastrack re-launches and speeds up
Ryan Walmsley’s rastrack.co.uk website has just relaunched with a new database back-end and notable front-end improvements. I’m on a really old laptop (Dell Inspiron) at the moment and it’s very fast for me! Check it out and, if you haven’t,…
Using the MCP23017 port expander with WiringPi2 on the #RaspberryPi (continued)
Alex is continuing his series on using the MCP23017 port expander to give you lots of lovely extra GPIO ports.Ā Read the third part hereĀ or read the first two parts here.
Automatic reboots for unresponsive #RaspberryPi
Martin Harizanov has been looking at something called ‘watchdog’ which is a service that restarts itself regularly. If it fails (because the Pi has hung) then it restarts the Pi.Ā Read how to install it here.