Hi everyone. You might have noticed a shortage of posts recently, and for this I apologise. I’ve been through a pretty rough time of late with mental health issues and between work, Sharnbrook Mill Theatre and Pi Wars, I’ve over-stretched…
Bryan Boyer decided that he wanted to truly appreciate every frame of a motion picture. To this end, he has developed the Very Slow Movie Player (VSMP). The VSMP contains a Raspberry Pi running custom NodeJS software and a reflective…
Did Santa bring you something small, square-ish and green? Are you not sure what to do next? Need some inspiration? Want to see what others get up to with their Raspberry Pis? Come along to the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam…
Grant Gibson led a team over at Bright Signals which was tasked by a client with creating a prototype vending machine which would incorporate touchscreen product selection and NFC payment tokens. A single AC motor powered various mechanisms to vend…
Alex Eames has been doing a lot of cycling recently as part of a keep-fit regime, and just for fun. He’s decided to make himself a bike dashcam. The set-up will include a Pi 3A+ at the front and a Zero at…
Alex Eames has done his usual sterling work at finding out the power consumption of the newest member of the Raspberry Pi family: the 3A+. He’s measured, as usual, idle power usage, usage as the LXDE desktop is loading and…
Andy Warburton has taken his initial concept of a Raspberry Pi-powered nightlight and re-invented it using an ESP8266 board. The ESP8266 (which you can find on, for example, the Wemos D1 mini) is a marvellous chip which is Arduino IDE-compatible…
Good evening all. I just thought I’d share with you this Kickstarter for a Raspberry Pi power board. Designed to go in a car, and to take a 12V input and a signal from the ignition, the board sports the…
Hi everyone. I’ve gone through my big list of Pi and Maker companies and put together a list of those offering Black Friday deals. Find them below! ModMyPi – Up to 50% off a range of products & FREE Pi…
Claire Pollard, who recently started work for Pi retailer ModMyPi has started to write some tutorials for their website. On 5th November, she published a great tutorial that uses the Raspberry Pi, together with the SenseHAT, to create a fireworks display.…
