A team of students at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte have been working with a Raspberry Pi in their recycling initiative. They have created a three-and-a-half feet tall robot (called RecycleBot… I would have called it ‘Bob’) that patrols…
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Eben Upton on the #RaspberryPi Compute Module
Richard Wilson at Electronics Weekly has done a nice interview with the Foundation’s Eben Upton about the new Compute Module and how they expect it to be used. Read the interview here.
Learn to code with Sonic Pi and the #RaspberryPi
Over at Linux User & Developer, Rob Zwetsloot has written a mini-tutorial for Sonic Pi. It deals with making sure you have the software installed and then helps you to write a “mini concert” in the language. Read it here.
Automatic mouse launcher with a #RaspberryPi
Over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, they are featuring the work of John Shovic who has automated a way to keep his cat entertained. Using a pair of motors and some detection sensors, he has set up his Pi…
UNICEF to use #RaspberryPi and HDMIPi for refugee camps
UNICEF have teamed up with Alex Eames, Cyntech and Pimoroni to take the Raspberry Pi into refugee camps in Lebanon. I won’t say more as I believe that everyone should read the full piece over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s…
Using the Wolfson audio card with the #RaspberryPi
Over on Element14, Tim (aka packetgeek) has been road-testing a Wolfson audio card. He’s been working towards creating a Softsqueeze client with the card and he’s fully documented the procedure. Read it here. Although the review score (54/60) is high,…
Getting started with the #RaspberryPi Pi Co-Op
Matt Hawkins over at Raspberry Pi Spy has done a nice beginners intro for the Pi Co-Op board in which he makes an LED blink. It’s a simple example of what can be done with the board but worthwhile as…
#RaspberryPi camera with Twitterbot
This is a work-in-progress but nice to take a look at if you like photography projects. Nicholas Moore is working on a camera based on work done by Adafruit with an automatic Tweet-sender program. Read more here.
Shutdown button for the #RaspberryPi
Phil has taken a nice big arcade button and hooked it up to the GPIO so that when he presses the button it shuts down his Pi. Read more here.
Designing and making an injection-moulded case for the #RaspberryPi
Here’s a nice piece over on the Adafruit site about the design and manufacture of their popular Pi case. They cover initial design, prototype printing and finally the creation of the injection mould to produce the product. As the son…