Albert Hickey wondered if Chromium (being the new default browser for Raspbian) would support Flash. Most specifically, he wondered if Scratch 2.0 through the browser would work. To start with, it wouldn’t. However, following an update/upgrade, it suddenly did! Here’s…
Category: Programming
Hack into the Pokemon API and make this clever little Raspberry Pi tracker
The Ruiz brothers over at Adafruit have found a way to create a Pokemon tracking device by hacking into the Pokemon API. Warning: make a separate account because this is definitely against their terms of service! They use a Raspberry Pi Zero and a…
Rewarding good behaviour with the Raspberry Pi
Stuart Harrison has a young son whose school awards (good behaviour) reward points and (bad) behaviour points. Frustrated with the school’s interface, Stuart set-up a screen scraper to get the data off their system and put it onto his own…
A make-it-yourself touch-capacitive kit for the Raspberry Pi from PiCymru
Doug Gore and the PiCymru team have developed a new kit that turns common objects into touch capacitive devices and then feeds the input signals back into the Raspberry Pi. It’s called PiFun and is inspired by MakeyMakey. The kit, which is available…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a touchscreen advent calendar
Spencer Organ has published the code for a Raspberry Pi-powered touchscreen advent calendar. So, get ready for the festive season, see more details here and download the code here. You can change the photographs to your own pictures if you wish…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Use a micro:bit and your Raspberry Pi to cause earthquakes in Minecraft
Martin O’Hanlon is a Minecraft programming guru and he’s come up with a great method of using a micro:bit to generate earthquakes inside Minecraft: Pi Edition. You hook one of your micro:bit’s pins up to a GPIO pin on the…
Building an air drum kit with a Raspberry Pi and Wii controllers
David Pride, who previously created the wonderful motorised Connect 4 game (which handed me my butt at the Big Birthday Weekend), recently went to a car boot sale and found an “air drum” kit for £1. Taking this as inspiration, he…