This one’s a quickie. Carl Hughes has taken Matt Hawkin’s BerryClip board and worked out how to control it from Node.js. Read how here
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Overlay text and graphics on a #RaspberryPi PiCam photo and tweet it!
Alex Eames, at RasPi.TV, has been very busy recently posting a series of blog posts about using Tweepy on the Pi to send tweets. He has previously covered tweeting an image from a PiCam and now he’s moved on to…
Connecting an Arduino to the #RaspberryPi using I2C
There are several ways to connect an Arduino to a Pi. The simplest way is to just plug it into one of the USB sockets on the Pi. Peter Mount, however, needed to do things differently as he was already…
14-year old student builds a cute portable #RaspberryPi
Jayme Gisbourne, who studies at Stewards Academy in Essex, has created this neat portable Pi set-up and called it the Porta-Pi. The main case is acrylic and he’s used a hack for the lcd screen pioneered by SK Pang. He…
Weather forecasting on your #RaspberryPi
Gary Sims at maketecheasier has written a tutorial about getting plain text weather forecast details using a utility called weather-util. This software is easily installed from the command line from Raspbian’s repos so you have no excuse for not getting…
Lots of coverage for this month’s Cambridge #RaspberryJam
I’ve just posted onto the CamJam blog a load of links to coverage of last week’s Jam. Particularly well worth a read if you’ve not been to a Jam before and you want to know what we get up to!…
A sleeping cycle and light alarm clock using a #RaspberryPi
Instructables user derwassi has written an extensive tutorial on hooking up a Pi to a lamp and having it act as a timer to wake you up gently in the morning. He’s called it the WeggUp (because of the shape). This…
CamJam February 2014 – The Big Write-Up
I’ve just published the latest write-up from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam over on camjam.me. Read it here
DoodleBorg – the #RaspberryPi tank
We saw this at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam last Saturday. It’s huge, it’s heavy and it’s controlled by a Raspberry Pi. It is 65kg of robot and uses 6 of PiBorg‘s new robotics board, the PicoBorg reverse, to drive 6…
Use an analog thumbstick with your #RaspberryPi
Carl Hughes has taken an analog thumbstick and combined it with an MCP3008 digital-to-analog converter and used PyGame to communicate with it. Nice little project to control your favourite game! Read more here