SixFab (and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The ‘shields’ are as follows: 4G/LTE 3G GSM/GPRS GPS XBee They are compatible with all models of Raspberry…
Category: Internet of things
World of Light – an interactive map with a Raspberry Pi
Joshua Krosenbrink works for Usabilla and he has presented them with the World of Light, a map of the world represented by 426 RGB LEDs. The Raspberry Pi runs an API that is used to send data to affect the map…
New crowdfunding campaign for a Raspberry Pi add-on – the RabbitMax Flex
Leon Anavi has just launched his first crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. He wants to fund the RabbitMax Flex which is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. The main board is HAT-sized and hosts the following: a relay a buzzer a button…
Playing around with Google Cloud Vision on the Raspberry Pi
John over at Dexter Industries has been in touch. He’s been playing around with Google Cloud services, and in particular the Google Cloud Vision API. The API is able to take an image and then interpret it to determine what…
Internet of Things competition from The MagPi, Initial State and MCM
Initial State, The MagPi and MCM Electronics have teamed up to run a great competition, all based around The Internet of Things. The projects must use Initial State and a Raspberry Pi to be considered and you have until 31st…
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
ModMyPi PiOT relay board for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by Average Man and Raspberry Pi Spy
A while back, Jacob over at ModMyPi sent me a new board – a relay board designed to be used for IoT projects. I haven’t had a chance to use it myself yet, but I would like to feature it…
Traffic light linked to coffee and popcorn driven from Raspberry Pi
Arkatechture previously linked their coffee machine and popcorn maker to their Slack instant messages group. Now, they’ve taken an old traffic light, wired up another Pi with relays to control it, and then hooked that up to the two machines…
Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi
Nate Welch over at Arkatechture (bet that’s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they’ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect…
Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…