James Hobson and his team at Chico State University have created a device to monitor drivers and their facial movements to determine if they are looking at the road. They’ve used a Pi and camera module plus OpenCV to do…
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Help fund a wearable technology workshop for Girl Guides
This isn’t strictly Pi-related, but it is to do with electronics and education so I thought I’d blog about it anyway! Pi enthusiast (and Babbage the Bear-hugger) and STEM Ambassador Charlotte Godley wants to run an educational workshop for her…
Starting a Code Club – what happens?
Author Sean McManus has set himself the task this year of starting up a Code Club in a local junior school. You can read about his experience with the initial steps here. You can find out more about the Code…
Network monitoring with MRTG on the #RaspberryPi
Muhammad Furqan has written a tutorial about using the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) software on the Pi. The software uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to monitor network devices and draw graphs showing how much traffic has passed through interfaces…
Playing sounds on the #RaspberryPi
David Whale’s Raspberry Pi club is doing great things. This time, he and his young members played around with sound on the Pi. This involved working out a solution to an audio problem caused by an HDMI-to-VGA adaptor – very…
#RaspberryPi workshop in Cambridge with the Raspberry Pi Guy (23rd Feb)
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has is running a 4-hour workshop (split into two sessions) on Sunday 23rd February at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. The workshop is for people who have not long got their…
Laika investor tells what it’s like to test out a #RaspberryPi expansion board
Andy Bakin has written a guest post over at the Foundation’s blog in which he describes the practicalities of testing out a full production run of 500 (and now 1000) Laika Explorer boards. Read it here
New add-on board brings #Arduino to #Raspberry Pi in a simple way
Dawn Robotics, mostly known (as the name implies) for their robotics kits and parts, have released a new board called the Pi Co-op. Here’s what they say about it: The Pi Co-op is an Arduino compatible microcontroller expansion board for…
Vocal intruder alarm with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox over at Class Think has posted a tutorial showing you how to use a PIR sensor to detect movement and then play a sound. Take a look here
New #RaspberryPi budget motor controller boards available from @4tronix_uk
4tronix are now offering a new motor controller board called the MicRoCon. I got one of these in the post the other day and I’ve soldered it together (very easy) but not had the chance to play with it yet.…