Craig Argh has posted a great tutorial on using a capacitive touch sensor breakout board, 5 potatoes and the Pi. Sounds insane, but it’s a great way to learn about capacitance and how to use strange objects to control your…
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Snowboarding with a #RaspberryPi GPS helmet camera
Martin O’Hanlon loves to snowboard and he’s figured out a way to record his travels using a helmet camera powered by a Raspberry Pi. Here he is in action: Read more about how he managed it over on his blog,…
Android Apps for #RaspberryPi – RasPi.TV picks the best ones
Alex has researched a ton of Android apps and written a great article on the best ones over at RasPi.TV. Read all about them here
Horse racing game with the #RaspberryPi and the BerryClip
Jim Flewker has taken a BerryClip and written a horse-racing game for it. This board is great for a beginner (I’ve got one myself and it was the first thing I soldered successfully) and has 6 LEDs, a buzzer and…
Are teachers ready for the coding revolution? Can the #RaspberryPi help?
Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s technology correspondent, has written a great article about his time at BETT, the annual educational technology fair in London this week. He’s interviewed several people, including education secretary Michael Gove (who is either the saviour of…
What is a #RaspberryPi? – fantastic animated video from Saladhouse
Manchester-based animation studio Saladhouse have created this delightful little video in which they explain what a Raspberry Pi is and what it can do. They’ve made the great decision to get Amy Mather to narrate it and I think it…
4tronix publishes a grand tour of their #RaspberryPi motor board the PiRoCon
Online retailer and innovator 4tronix have published an extensive guide to their motor controller board, the PiRoCon, detailing all the different connections and options available on the board. Well worth a look if you’re after something a bit more substantial…
Terrific video celebrates 2 years of the #RaspberryPi
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has cut together a fantastic video showing dozens of projects created using the Raspberry Pi and other, historic, clips to give an overview of the last 2 years of Pi-related goodness. Well worth…
A Lego 4×4 Crawler controlled by a #RaspberryPi
Karl Herrick, together with his kids, built a Lego 4×4 Crawler remote controlled car then added a Raspberry Pi, with camera. He paired it with a Nexus 4 smartphone and used ssh to issue remote commands to control it. Read…
DIY quiz show with a #RaspberryPi – Triviabox!
Sandy Walsh has taken a Pi, a PiFace board, some extra bits and pieces and some bike handles from China and created a buzz-to-give-your-answer quiz set-up. The Foundation have covered it brilliantly on their blog. Read here