I’ve just noticed that The Pi Hut has just put on sale the Google AIY Voice Kit. This kit, which is the offspring of the famous MagPi issue 57, costs £25 and contains everything you need to put together your…
Richard Hayler recently acquired a new pet snake which he’s called The Kernel. The Kernel is housed inside a tank and Richard wanted to monitor the temperature and humidity of the environment. So, he used a DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensor (like…
The new issue of The MagPi magazine is now out. Plenty of great stuff in this issue including a special on how LEGO can be used in conjunction with our favourite single-board computer. Download for free from the MagPi’s site or…
Alex Eames from RasPiO has just announced on Twitter that he has today launched a new web shop to showcase his selection of products. I recently put together and reviewed a pyramid from his RasPiO Inspiring collection. Read the review…
Yiannis Kranidiotis has created a kinetic sculpture which reacts to live data of the solar wind. Called Cyma, which is Greek for ‘wave’, the sculpture works by the bottom plank being moved and then that movement being translated up through…
Adam Pantanowitz and a team from the Wits School of Electrical and Information Engineering in Johannesburg have put the data from a human brain on the Internet for the first time. Using an Emotiv EEG device (pictured), they collect EEG (electroencephalogram) data…
Tijuana Rick’s father-in-law found a 1969 Wurlitzer 3100 Jukebox, for free but without the original 45s. Together, they refurbished the Jukebox and then set about turning it into a media centre. They used an Arduino Mega to read button presses which…
We said we’d be back, and indeed we are. CamJam, the Cambridge Raspberry Jam, is making a return on Saturday, 14th October. The event, which will run from 10.30am-4pm, will be held at Impington Village College in North-West Cambridge (just off…
Back in March 2017, Alex Eames ran a Kickstarter for RasPiO InsPiRing, a system that enabled you to ‘sculpt lights with RGB LED shapes’. TL;DR – I got the Pyramid bundle in the Kickstarter, had great fun soldering it up and…
Over on Reddit, ecefour posted about his project in which he’s squeezed a Raspberry Pi Zero W, various other electrical components and a screen inside a Texas Instruments TI-83+ calculator. He’s got it running RetroPie and he’s wired the calculator…
