Gordon Hollingworth, over at Raspberry Pi, has just blogged an exciting new development that means you can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero’s GPIO pins from your PC or Mac. You’ll need to install Raspbian x86 Stretch on the non-Zero machine…
Every year, Spencer Organ tries to make something Christmassy to make his house more festive, and to show off at various events he attends. This year, he 3D-printed a plastic house and placed it inside a snow globe bell jar.…
The new issue of The MagPi (number 64) seeks to be an electronics starter guide with explanation of the normal components and some simple projects to get you going. They even recommend the CamJam EduKits as a great way to get hold…
Raspberry Pi’s Laura Sach has just announced that there are some new Christmas-themed resources available to get you into the festive spirit. I know, I know, it’s still November, but anyway! The first project is in Scratch and shows you how to…
Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV has been experimenting with a rain sensor. He’s figured out how to use the digital-out of a breakout board to trigger a buzzing alert when water is detected. By tuning the breakout with a potentiometer, it…
This is the 2017 post. For 2018’s post, go here. Without much ado at all, here’s a list of the companies in the Raspberry Pi world and what they’re doing for Black Friday. I’ll update this post as I hear…
Richard Saville (Average Man) has been busy for the past 13 months, what with his new house and new baby. Well, he’s back with a review of the UUGear Witty Pi 2. This power management board has: an on-off switch…
We’re holding a Christmas-themed Raspberry Jam in Potton, on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire border, on 9th December and we’d love to see you there. A family-friendly event, that happens to be held upstairs at a pub, Potton Pi & Pints is a chance to talk about, use and…
Computer engineering student Shoyu has created a four-legged insect robot which uses a Raspberry Pi 3 and an IO Expander Board to control the servos. He’s added a Camera Module and then created a control interface that can be used…
Just recently launched on Kickstarter, Pip is a portable “digital creation” device based around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Let’s take a look at the product, and I’ll give you my opinion at the end. Hardware The Pip is based…
