Gordon Henderson, of WiringPi fame, has just finished leading a Raspberry Pi course at the Winchester-based Techcamp 2013. He’s written up his experiences getting the young people programming with Bash, BASIC, Python and Minecraft as well as other activities they…
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Cheap-as-chips ultrasonic SR04 distance sensor – #RaspberryPi compatible
I’ve just been browsing a little (waiting for the coffee to kick in!) and come across some SR04 distance sensor modules at Hobby Components. These are ridiculously cheap at £1.75 (inc VAT) and are very close in price to those…
The MagPi, the #RaspberryPi magazine, relaunches website
With a nice new design for the website and a massive 44-page magazine, The MagPi have relaunched with the same great content that we’ve come to expect. This month’s massive 44-page issue contains features on: I2C sensors, communicating with Arduino…
Babbage the #RaspberryPi Bear jumps successfully from 39km
I’m a bit late with this, given how much press coverage there has been, but I didn’t feel it was right to not blog about it. Dave Akerman (@daveake) has made a habit of sending up high-altitude balloons with Raspberry Pis…
Interview with founder of #RaspberryPi bits supplier ModMyPi
This is a lovely article from Wired magazine about Jacob Marsh who founded ModMyPi soon after the launch of the Pi in February 2012. Great to hear about a business success in this economic climate. Read the article
Go Back to the Future with a #RaspberryPi and LED Time Circuits
Vince Weaver is working on implementing a set of Back to the Future-style time circuits with his Pi. It’s in the beginning stages, but looks very promising. He’s looking to build a circuit board from the project but, quite frankly,…
Pi Crust – Easily Connect Electronics To Your Raspberry Pi by Pi Supply — Kickstarter
The PiCrust is a lovely little board that sits on top of the GPIO pins and breaks out the pins into sensible groups. I’ve got three myself and they’re really handy for prototyping circuits. Pi-and-bits supplier “Pi Supply” is running…
How to compile the #RaspberryPi camera module software
Martin O’Hanlon has been doing some work on the video recording software, RaspiVid, for the camera module. He’s written some instructions on how to do this yourself. So, if you’re all-at-sea when it comes to using GitHub and just want…
Add Framebuffer TFT support to the #RaspberryPi kernel without too much tedium
Martin Harizanov has posted up instructions for adding framebuffer support to the Pi to support little displays such as this: Read the instructions here You can buy the 1.8″ display that Martin’s got from his store. It costs all of…
The World’s smallest Mac has a #RaspberryPi under the hood
I spotted this a day before the Foundation posted about it, but I just couldn’t believe that it was Pi related. It’s a tiny tiny tiny Mac, or rather it looks like a Mac but it’s actually a stylish case…