Arkansas-based Cyndi Minister has created a spinner, controlled by a Raspberry Pi, for making yarn up into spools. I’ll let her explain it – read her blog!
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Book review: #RaspberryPi Projects for Kids
I was sent a review copy of this book by the publisher, Packt. As usual, however, this will be an impartial review. Raspberry Pi Projects for kids is a slim volume printed in black-and-white by Daniel Bates, a computer science…
Skip TV adverts with the #RaspberryPi
R D Milligan has a friend who hates to watch adverts on television. So, with the Pi and a bit of Python/PiCamera help, he’s used image recognition to spot the end of the adverts and play a sound to alert…
Stop yourself wasting time watching TV with the #RaspberryPi
Ivan has blogged about his project to prevent people from watching television at the wrong time. He’s worked out how to do it for both analog and digital TV so that instead of the TV signal, you get a message from…
Lesson plans for the Seven Segments of #RaspberryPi
Those of you who follow the blog will know that I’ve been running a series of guest posts from Nevil Hunt, inventor of the Seven Segments of Pi. Teacher Allen Heard has now written some proper lesson plans using Seven Segs…
Make your own sous-vide cooker with the #RaspberryPi and the Wolfram language
The Foundation have just had a guest blog post put up from Allison Taylor of Wolfram Research. In the post, she describes Diego Zviovich’s work to create a DIY sous-vide cooker with a Pi, an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter and a couple…
Play a musical scale with the Pibrella and the #RaspberryPi
Darren Christie has written a quick blog post with some code to play a musical scale on the Pibrella’s buzzer. Read how to do it here.
A #RaspberryPi powered programmable solar cooker
Michael Nicholas over at MakeZine.com has blogged about his project to create a rotation device for his solar cooker, called the Solrmatic. You can read more over at MakeZine. You can get updates on their project by signing up to their…
Sonic Pi gets a boost from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts
Cambridge Junction, along with Cambridge University Faculty of Education and The Raspberry Pi Foundation have been given £124,633 by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. The money will go towards developing Sonic Pi, which seeks to teach programming using sound and…
Morse code translator with the #RaspberryPi
I haven’t got much detail on this project, but thought I’d share it anyway. 13-year old Kyle Seaman has used a Raspberry Pi to take keyboard input and translate what he types into morse code. The morse code is then…