Launched today on Kickstarter is the CrowPi2. Billed as an “All in one STEAM education platform & Raspberry Pi laptop to Learn, Explore and Have Fun”, the CrowPi includes an 11.6″ 1920×1080 resolution IPS screen and a removable unit which…
Following the arrest and conviction of Andrew Banks for urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer, someone sent me a video of this fabulous Raspberry Pi-controlled project. The charmingly-named “That Engineer Guy” has been helping a Southampton-based…
For a few years, I have been following the work of Martin Mander, a hobbyist with a passion for refurbishing and repurposing vintage electrical equipment. Recently, Martin repurposed a 1970s transistor radio to create an internet radio. This inspired me to look…
Artist Kareem Rahma is an Egyptian-American who has settled in Brooklyn. The recent killing of George Floyd spurred him into action to create a statement piece which would be achieved by projecting onto the side of the Mill City Museum…
Here‘s an interesting way of using the micro:bit – as an IoT sensor device that can be deployed remotely. By using an ElecFreaks IoT:bit and some sensors, together with an online service called ThingSpeak you can broadcast, capture, access and…
The micro:bit Foundation newsletter is a rich source of new projects, tutorials and news about the micro:bit. This week, they’ve announced 3, 15-minute video project guides as follows. Take a look – let me know what you think of them!…
Giles Booth has written up a great educational project that involves using a micro:bit to show you how a CPU/processor works. This is what he said about his intentions: I decided my micro:bit CPU would be a 5-bit computer, rather…
From Lorraine Underwood, care of McGraw Hill Publishing, comes this project book which promises to “engage kids with coding and making”. It includes 20 projects using a Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and/or the Circuit Playground Express – making it the first…
Exciting news from Raspberry Pi this morning. There is now an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4. This is a doubling of the max memory from 4GB and should prove to be a boon for those who use their Pis as general…
Lorraine Underwood has entered the Element14 #badass Women Makers and Engineers Contest with this great hack of a couple of vintage-style telephones from Amazon. She removed the plate on the bottom of the telephones and fitted a Raspberry Pi. She then…
