Pete Dearing wanted to do build something for his kids, and it had to have buttons. A lot of buttons! He purchased plans for a space-themed bunk bed and then proceeded to create a console with dozens of buttons, switches, toggles and…
Allen Pan of Sufficiently Advanced decided that Google’s voice recognition service wasn’t being used for the right stuff. So, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi to the service for a far more magical mission. Wizard Analogue No-Magic Dueling Simulator (W.A.N.D.S.)…
Christopher Aedo has written an article over on opensource.com in which he explains how he has set-up a Raspberry Pi to monitor his home-brewing equipment. It’s a pretty sophisticated set-up that uses CraftBeerPi to provide an interface to several sensor readings. You can…
There’s a new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) on the block. Called Thonny, it has just been added into the Raspbian image. The MagPi has done a great tutorial and walkthrough of the features of the editor here. Opinion I recently…
Alex Eames has reviewed the Pimoroni Pirate Radio kit which features a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The kit, which requires assembly, costs £40 and includes the Zero W and most of the parts you need inside a nice project box.…
Wayne Keenan wanted to build a hyper-slim camcorder. So, he took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a HyperPixel screen, a small camera from Pimoroni, a LiPo battery and some other components, soldered and stuck them together and, voila, a tiny camera!…
Andy Warburton is organising a Raspberry Jam in Amsterdam on Saturday, 9th September. The event, which runs from 11am-3pm, will take place at TQ, which is in close proximity to the Flower Market. There will be show-and-tell, a workshop, a…
Can you help? Recently, we lost our normal venue for CamJam – the Institute of Astronomy. This was through no fault of our own – Andy, who was our contact there, has recently changed jobs within the University and moved…
At a ceremony in London last night, the team behind the Raspberry Pi won a prestigious award: The MacRobert Award. The MacRobert Award is the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation. The award “recognises outstanding innovation,…
Alex Eames has been doing some investigation into wifi connections. Specifically, how to create a connection to a hidden wifi network so that the Pi automatically connects each time it is booted up. He’s found the secret sauce inside wpa_supplicant…
