Just a quick blog – Bart Bania has blogged about getting a small Nokia 5110 LCD screen to work with the Raspberry Pi and lots and lots of resistors 🙂 Read all about it here
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New kit launched – RasWIK, the #RaspberryPi Wireless Inventors Kit
I have no affiliation, connection or arrangement with Ciseco, apart from meeting them at a recent Jam and talking to them about this product since then. Ciseco, who attended July’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam and will be making an appearance…
Simple way to broadcast video and audio with the #RaspberryPi camera and a microphone
Foundation forum member tjsheffler has been experimenting with getting a simple HLS stream from the camera module and syncing it with audio from a mic. He’s not been completely successful, but you can follow his progress and replicate his experiments…
New expansion board for #RaspberryPi announced by Element14 – chipKIT Pi
Just saw this on the blogosphere so thought I’d share it. Element 14/Farnell have just announced that they’re asking for people to register interest in a new product. I’ll just copy-paste in from their site: chipKITâ„¢ Pi (Designed for Raspberry…
Amplify the volume from your #RaspberryPi
Raj Vignesh has built a circuit to allow him to amplify the sound output from the audio output of the Pi. It currently uses an external 9V battery although he hopes to eventually power it from the 3V rail on…
#RaspberryPi used in bitcoin-operated pool table
Games room company Liberty Games has created a pool table that is operated by bitcoins and runs with the aid of a Raspberry Pi. Read more here
Get an e-paper display for your #RaspberryPi
Sweden-based Embedded Artists are selling a 2.7″ e-paper display… and it’s compatible with the Raspberry Pi! They provide instructions and demo code to use the display. Journalist Gareth Halfacree is currently working with the board. You can follow him on…
Using the PiGlow and a #RaspberryPi as a diffuse lighting source
The guys at Norwich-based Gadgetoid have been experimenting with the PiGlow expansion board: and have worked out how to use it, together with a glass lamp from IKEA, to create a remote-controlled mood light. Read about the project here
Dave Akerman’s write-up of the great #RaspberryPi Babbage Bear stratosphere jump
The title says it all, really. Dave has now written up his mission to launch a Raspberry Pi teddy bear from 39km up from a high-altitude balloon. Read the blog and see some great pictures
Presentation from PyCon India shows how to control GPIO pins on the #RaspberryPi
Sudar Muthu has just finished presenting at the Python conference PyCon in India. He’s kindly shared his slides, code and circuit diagrams from the conference so we can all see how a simple electronics project is put together. Read more…