Michael Darby has been supported by ModMyPi for his latest project – an Iron Man mask with an in-built heads-up display and it’s all driven from a Raspberry Pi Zero. He’s taken the Pi, a LiPo battery, an Enviro pHat and some optical equipment…
Raspberry Pi have just announced this year’s get-together for digital enthusiasts – Raspberry Fields. This (non-camping, and not in-a-field!) event will be held over the weekend of 30th June-1st July at Cambridge Junction, where last year’s Birthday Party was held. There…
Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV, as is traditional, has done some power measurements of the new Raspberry Pi 3B+, launched yesterday. As usual, I won’t spoil the actual results here, but suffice to say you don’t get something for nothing…
Tim’s just alerted me to the latest Humble Bundle book deals, and they are great bundles to grab! They’re all Wiley books, so the quality is excellent. For $1, you can get: Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects Exploring Arduino Learning…
Good news this morning! Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 3B+. An incremental upgrade of the Raspberry Pi 3, the 3B+ features: an improved processor running at an increased speed of 1.4GHz with an added…
A new Kickstarter has just launched for a tablet, powered by a Raspberry Pi. With it’s eye firmly on the children’s market, the MakePad features a 10.1″ touchscreen and is battery powered (8000mAh). It has a built-in 3W speaker for…
Andreas Rottach from Germany has taken 300 LEDs and a Raspberry Pi 3 and created this stunning LED matrix gaming table. He’s implemented several low-res games on it, including Tetris (above) and Flappy Bird as well as programming challenge favourite…
I’m always on the lookout for cheap electronics on eBay and AliExpress. Following on from my previous tutorial on HD44780 screens, this time, I found a small OLED display. I bought one of these from eBay for less than £5 plus…
This post is all about HD44780 LCD screens and how to use them in your projects. I’ve recently been thinking about what my next project will be. I’ve previously experimented with handheld enclosures such as these ones: and I wanted to…
Dr Lucy Rogers, of Robot Wars fame and founder of the Guild of Makers, has been in touch. Next Friday (16th March), the Guild is holding their launch event at Autodesk in Birmingham. If any of you consider yourselves ‘Makers’, this…
