Linux User and Developer magazine has posted it’s 4/5 review for the Wolfson Audio card. The card allows high quality input and output of audio through the GPIO pins and uses the P5 header of rev 2 Pis. It appears…
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Mirror, Mirror on the #RaspberryPi
Michael Teeuw has created a rather stylish magic mirror effect with a Raspberry Pi. You have to read how he did it to believe it – it’s a fantastic project. He’s done a complete tutorial on how he did it…
Seven Segments of Pi in the Classroom (part 7)
Another guest post from Nevil Hunt of Seven Segments of Pi. Part 7 – “NOOBS to the rescue! …but Mr Hunt – I’ve lost my SD Card!” Last week I talked about the fun of soldering! This week I will…
Review of the Pibrella for the #RaspberryPi
Here‘s a good, balanced review from SmittyTone of the Pibrella from Pimoroni/Cyntech. He’s gone into some depth here, particularly reviewing the software library that comes with it. Not sure I agree with the criticism that it looks like a toy…
Minecraft recipe cards for the #RaspberryPi
Minecraft guru and all round nice chap Craig Richardson has put together some simple “recipe cards” for Minecraft Pi Edition. They are: 1. Teleport2. Flower Path 3. Warehouse 4. Chat 5. Freeze 6. Block Fighter You can read more about…
Eavesdropping lamp uses a #RaspberryPi to tweet private conversations
I’m mentioning this one only out of interest, rather than any encouragement to recreate it. Kyle McDonald and Brian House have created Conversnitch, a device built for less than $100 that looks like a lamp. It listens to nearby conversations, transcribes the…
Program Flappy Bird (Fla-Pi Bird) in Scratch using a #RaspberryPi
Picademy graduate (and Raspberry Pi Certified Educator) Allen Heard has recently recreated the famous Flappy Bird game in Scratch. He has now put all his lesson plans up on Github for everyone to share. Take a look at his blog post…
#RaspberryPi Smartphone concept – PiPhone
World-class hacker Dave Hunt has made a touch-screen mobile phone concept piece with his Pi. The guts of the thing is a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module which handles the communications to the mobile network and he’s using a PiTFT screen for the…
Using male and female headers with #RaspberryPi expansion boards
The Average Man has done a great round-up of the ways to use headers in various ways with the Pi. He looks at techniques for breaking them apart and at the various breakout and plugin boards you can use. Read it…
Tweeting fish tank with a #RaspberryPi
Lauren Orsini has followed up her aquarium-temperature-monitoring project with an extra bit of programming which uses Twilio to facilitate tweeting when the tank is overheating. Read how she did it here.