Kano, the British start-up who ran an enormously successful Kickstarter campaign in November/December last year have claimed that schools are allowing their Raspberry Pis to gather dust, without checking their facts first. This article, which appeared on the PC Pro website,…
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Create your own animation studio with a #RaspberryPi – brilliant blog post!
This is an outstanding piece of work by Trevor Appleton. He has converted his Raspberry Pi into an animation studio by writing a piece of software (with a GUI) to take pictures with the camera module and then to string…
More on the Cacheberry Pi – Go geocaching with the #RaspberryPi
Paul’s been hard at work turning the Raspberry Pi into a geocaching tool. Geocaching is a hobby which involves tracking down (using GPS and the naked eye) small boxes and packages. They contain a log book to record who found…
#RaspberryPi camera with timelapse functionality
Articles from Jason Birch don’t come along that often but when they do they’re always worth reading. This time, he’s created a camera with a screen and buttons to take pictures & video and do time lapse photography. Read more…
Use a piezo buzzer to create sound with the #RaspberryPi GPIO
Ben Miller has written a great beginners’ article about hooking up a small piezo buzzer to the Pi’s GPIO pins to simply create a sound. He’s using C to do it, which is a shame as I think Python would…
Use an OLED display with the #RaspberryPi courtesy of @RaspberryPiGuy1 and @Adafruit
Matthew Timmons-Brown (who presented the brilliant keynote at the last CamJam and runs his own YouTube channel) has written an excellent tutorial on using tiny OLED displays with the Raspberry Pi. Read the tutorial here
Use the #RaspberryPi as a syslog server
Muhammad Furqan has written an in-depth piece on intenseschool.com about using the Pi to record syslog messages sent from multiple network devices. Read more here
Use the PiGlow on the #RaspberryPi with RISCOS
Leo White has been working on getting the Pimoroni PiGlow working with RISCOS. He’s managed it and has posted the BASIC code up so that everyone can do it! This opens up a whole world of opportunity for RISCOS on…
ePaper weather station with #RaspberryPi and #Arduino derivative
Jeremy Blum has hacked an open source BADGEr which is an e-paper conference badge into a weather station using a Pi. The BADGEr is an e-paper display mounted on a shield with an ATMEGA328 onboard. He wrote some new firmware…
Geocaching with the #RaspberryPi – the Cacheberry
@smstext has been building a Geocaching project with his Raspberry Pi. It’s still a work in progress at the moment but you can read about what he’s done here.