Matt Hawkins’ great little expansion board the BerryClip is controllable via Scratch. Graham Taylor from the “Raspberry Pi School” has written a tutorial about this and posted it on his blog. Read about it here
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Minecraft #RaspberryPi Edition – Java API
Carl Hughes has been building on work done by Daniel Frisk and Martin O’Hanlon to do with using Java to interface with Minecraft Read all about it here
Make any remote into a #RaspberryPi remote with FLIRC
Pete Taylor has written a tutorial on using the FLIRC dongle with any remote control. Read it here
Using the Dagu Pan/Tilt kit with the #RaspberryPi
I did this myself a while ago from a collection of parts I put together, but there is now a kit for setting up a pan/tilt mechanism for the camera module. Read about the new kit here.
How to take screenshots on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, the Raspberry Pi Spy, has done a great tutorial on how to take screenshots of the Pi when in the X GUI interface. It uses a piece of software unfortunately named ‘scrot’. :p Read how to do it here
A look inside Pimoroni, #RaspberryPi accessory manufacturers
Matt Cowan visited the Pimoroni offices and the Raspberry Pi Foundation HQ and videoed some footage of Paul Beech, founder of Pimoroni, and a bunch of people from the Foundation. An interesting look behind the scenes at this great little…
Residential night cooling automation with a #RaspberryPi
Here’s a cool project (cough cough). Ignacio Abel has created a prototype night-time house cooling automation project with a Raspberry Pi and some bits and pieces of tech from Ciseco. He goes into a lot of detail about how to…
Sony’s Pencoed plant, manufacturer of the #RaspberryPi, named Best Factory 2013
Sony UK Technology Centre at Pencoed was named as the UK’s Best Factory at the Best Factory Awards at the beginning of this month. Pencoed is the manufacturing home of the Raspberry Pi and in addition to the headline award,…
#RaspberryPi connected Wireless Smoke Alarm
Gareth Brown from Safe Fire Direct has written an account of his project which involved taking apart a cheap smoke alarm and installing a radio link between it and a Raspberry Pi. The Pi then sends an email and text…
Interfacing a 16×2 LCD with the #RaspberryPi
Mark Williams has written a tutorial using C and WiringPi that shows you how to connect up a 16×2 LCD screen to the Pi. It’s a great from-first-principles blog post. Read it here