Inspired by the 2014 disappearance of flight MH370, New Zealand year 8 student Benjamin Mueggenburg has developed what he calls a Visual Plane Locating System. It is designed to overcome some of the problems with the existing system of tracking planes, namely…
Category: Programming
DIY motorised skateboard controlled by Raspberry Pi Zero reaches speeds of 30km/h
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has been around for ages, providing tutorial and other videos. Now, he has embarked upon his most ambitious project yet by building his own motorised skateboard, controlled (of course) by a Raspberry Pi.…
World of Light – an interactive map with a Raspberry Pi
Joshua Krosenbrink works for Usabilla and he has presented them with the World of Light, a map of the world represented by 426 RGB LEDs. The Raspberry Pi runs an API that is used to send data to affect the map…
Plot SenseHAT pressure data onto a graph using a Raspberry Pi
There’s an air pressure sensor on the SenseHAT which you can access via Python. A coder over at BlogMyWiki has used taken these readings and then used the matplotlib library to create a graph of the results. It’s a nice, clear example…
Build a chess computer via a noughts-and-crosses computer with a Raspberry Pi
Maxim has used a Raspberry Pi to create a chess computer and he’s documented the entire process. (The game) runs from an Arduino which controls the board, connected to a Raspberry PI which runs the chess engine Stockfish and a…
Sort your Halloween candy using the Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Vision
Building on their earlier success with the Google Cloud Vision platform, the good people over at Dexter Industries have come up with a great way of sorting through chocolate bars for Halloween. Using a BrickPi and LEGO pieces, they’ve created an…
Playing around with Google Cloud Vision on the Raspberry Pi
John over at Dexter Industries has been in touch. He’s been playing around with Google Cloud services, and in particular the Google Cloud Vision API. The API is able to take an image and then interpret it to determine what…
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
Using the WordPress API to display stats on a 7-segment display with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (Average Man) has been hard at work looking at the WordPress API. He’s managed to find the necessary guides to dig into the API and extract data for his blog. He’s then run this data through his own…
Using Python to estimate your vocabulary – practical programming produces perfect picture
Alex Eames has been rediscovering the joy of practical programming and has come up with a great Python tutorial. The tutorial investigates the level of your vocabulary by importing a list of words and asking you whether you know what…