Following their successful Kickstarter campaign, Team Laika has licenced Pimoroni to sell their excellent robotics board, the Laika Explorer. This board has the following: 2x analogue and 4x digital inputs – to connect sensors, switches and other input devices. 7x…
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Wall mounted Google Calendar with #RaspberryPi
Alex Pine has written a decent Instructable on the steps required to get a Google Calendar display that can be mounted on a wall in your house/office. It takes you through the software you need to install (including the SD…
Breadboarding for beginners for the #RaspberryPi
The guys over at MakerSpaceUK have written an excellent little tutorial that will help you get started with creating your first circuit using a breadboard and some LEDs. There’s even a kit you can buy through Farnell for less than…
RyanTeck Motor Controller Board gets Scratch support on the #RaspberryPi
Ryan Walmsley’s Motor Controller Board has been given support in ScratchGPIO making it a very simple way for youngsters to get into robotics. Although not available yet, the brilliant Simon Walters was sent a prototype board for the work and…
Keep your kids in bed until the right time with Sleepi – the #RaspberryPi alarm clock
Parent Tycen decided to solve the age-old problem of kids getting up earlier than their parents want them to. Taking inspiration from a kids’ alarm clock, Tycen took a project box, a bit of simple wiring and a Pi and…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – December 2013 – The Big Write Up #camjam #rjam #raspberrypi
Twas a slightly chilly December morning when two men from Potton, Bedfordshire, loaded up a car with an incredible number of boxes and monitors. Thus armed, they headed to the great City of Cambridge, more specifically the Institute of Astronomy.…
Matrix display and Wii nunchuck together make Tetris for the #RaspberryPi
Vince has taken a Pi, some LED matrix displays, a 7-segment display and a Wii nunchuck and put them together to create a Tetris-like game. The game is controlled by the accelerometer in the nunchuck, rather than the joystick, so control…
Using an old bluetooth GPS receiver with the #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has taken an old Holux GPS module and hooked it up to his Pi using bluetooth. Read more here
HDMIPi now available for pre-orders – affordable HD screen for the #RaspberryPi
Following their successful Kickstarter campaign, the HDMIPi guys have created a website to allow you to pre-order the screen. There are various prices which start from £75 for the screen and (very nice) plastic Pibow-alike surround. Head to their website…
#RaspberryPi Gingerbread House
Anders Wikström has created a gingerbread house and then added an Adafruit RGB LED pixels strand. The Pi controls them and he’s built an interface using socket.io to control them remotely.