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BrickPi for LEGO MINDSTORMS and #RaspberryPi now available for pre-order
Dexter Industries had a successful Kickstarter recently for “BrickPi”… Well, that’s underplaying it – they reached a whopping 6,751% of their funding, which is the biggest over-fund I think I’ve ever seen. Simply put, BrickPi turns the Raspberry Pi…
Lincoln University’s #RaspberryPi powered digital garden
The Foundation have just posted about the Gold Medal winning garden from Lincoln University that was presented at the Chelsea Flower Show. This remarkable project changed shape and configuration depending on Tweets and was powered by a Raspberry Pi. Read the…
Find out who is ringing your doorbell by email with a #RaspberryPi
Martin over at harizanov.com has hacked into a wireless doorbell and used his Raspberry Pi to take a picture of the person ringing the doorbell and then sending an email notification, including the picture. This project requires some soldering and electronics…
More GPIO basics from RasPi.TV – inputs and outputs on the #RaspberryPi
Alex continues his series on the GPIO by looking at using inputs and outputs together. His insight into granny stairlifts are particularly enlightening! 🙂 Read the article here
The GWR Locomotive Sketchpad for the #RaspberryPi
Lovely story on the Foundation site today, and of particular interest to me. My wife and I love to ride steam locomotives and her grandfather actually drove the legendary City of Truro. (She rode the footplate of the same engine…
RasPi.TV runs series on the #RaspberryPi GPIO
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV is currently running a series on the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins. It’s great to see this kind of blogging and it’s especially useful for beginners or those who need to know why you need that pull-down resistor, for…
Backup solution using the #RaspberryPi and BitTorrent Sync
Frank at Raspberry Alpha Omega has been looking at backup software and has discovered that you can host a BitTorrent Sync server on your Raspberry Pi Read about how to do it
PiBorg launches #RaspberryPi GPIO triple replication board
Here’s a great idea from the guys over at PiBorg. This board plugs onto the GPIO pins and then replicates those same pins three times. This means you can, for instance, plug in three of their other small GPIO boards…
The #RaspberryPi Microwave
Nathan Broadbent has built a Raspberry Pi into his microwave. It scans the normal barcode of a product, looks it up on an online database and this dictates the cooking instructions. It also allows voice commands and tweets when it’s…