Alex Eames is currently running a Kickstarter to fund his latest project – RasPiO Inspiring. As part of the campaign (which is already funded!), he has shot a video of a project you can do with the driver board and an Inspiring LED…
Dr Lucy Rogers has put together a great tutorial for those who like their projects smokin’! She’s taken a Raspberry Pi, some pieces of plastic tubing, some Neopixels, some speakers for the ‘cracking’ sound and an electronic cigarette and created some totally legal fake…
pi-top have just announced a new version of their pi-topOS operating system. The new version, called Polaris, has a fresh new dashboard design and updates to the CODER programming interface. pi-topOS offers a lot of user interface improvements over the…
Albert Hickey recently went to a Raspberry Jam and took along with him his latest project: a green-screen photo booth. The booth, which runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, uses Imagemagick to remove the colour green (provided by a green backdrop purchased from…
Albert Hickey is a big fan of using the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi and also of using Scratch, the visual programming language. So, he decided to use both with this simple game. You’re presented with a blue dot (which is…
I’ve just spotted this new resource on the Raspberry Pi website’s resources section. It shows you how to get started with controlling the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins using visual programming language Node-RED. It’s a nice tutorial and helps you get…
Rui Santos from Portugal has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for those who want to get into ESP8266 boards and control them from a Raspberry Pi. He uses Python on the Raspberry Pi, with imported MQTT libraries, and C code…
Masato Sudo, a software engineer in the Microsoft Windows IoT team has developed a system which recognises a person approaching a door and then unlocks (or doesn’t) accordingly. A standard USB camera captures the image, the Pi takes the image…
Achilleus from Samnium has contacted me about an application he’s written for the Raspberry Pi 3. It is a light framework for reading data from multiple sensors and sending them over the network. It’s called IoTWork.Reader and was developed in…
There have been several Raspberry Pi-powered mobile phone builds over the past few years (Tyler Spadgenske and David Hunt) but none have used the Pi Zero… until now. (Cue dramatic music). Arsenijs from Latvia has created the ZeroPhone, and he reckons it…
