The “people’s choice” award of the Global IT Challenge, which aims to award innovative uses of technology that “tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges”, has been awarded to the Zoological Society of London. The £500,000 prize will go a…
Category: Internet of things
Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer
Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. There’s also a great script to monitor a DropBox…
Play with your cat from work with a #RaspberryPi powered Remote Presence platform
New York-based MadSci is developing a Lab research project to “explore quick, inexpensive and easy deploying of remote-controlled interactions”. The project has been developed with a Raspberry Pi using web socket software Spacebrew Read about this great project over at…
Live motion tracking with the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has blogged about a motion tracking experiment developed by Erik Haderup. It “uses a Raspberry Pi to wirelessly transmit live motion tracking data from a set of 13 inertial measurement units”. Read about it and watch a video here
Change the colour of Will’s #RaspberryPi desk
Great Internet of Things project from William Wnekowicz – you control the colour of his desk area at some date in the future by choosing from a colour wheel. It’s all powered on a Raspberry Pi running PHP and Python scripts…
#RaspberryPi weather station with a USB display
Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD…
#RaspberryPi Model Railway Controller / @Raspberry_Pi
Peter Wallen has interfaced a Raspberry Pi to a model railway using a DCC controller and hall-effect switches to provide position feedback from the track. Raspberry Pi Model Railway Controller – YouTube.
Bartendro – a cocktail dispensing robot using the #RaspberryPi
Party Robotics have launched a Kickstarter project to fund their cocktail-dispensing robot, the Bartendro. The Bartendro has, at it’s core, a Raspberry Pi. In their effort to fulfil their goal of creating the perfect cocktail perfectly each time, they use Arduino clones…
#RaspberryPi Fish Tank Monitor (work in progress)
Just thought I’d share this discussion forum thread in which a Raspberry Pi enthusiast called Rob is attempting to build a fish tank monitor out of a Raspberry Pi and some expansion boards.
Great fun watching Dave Akerman’s PIE4 – #RaspberryPi high altitude balloon
Dave Akerman’s PIE4 landed at approximately 2pm having reached a maximum height of 35,409m (~116,000 feet). The TARDIS-encased Raspberry Pi hit the ground in a field just off the B3353 near Whitley, Wiltshire. More details will be posted on Dave’s blog…