At a CamJam long past, Wayne Keenan brought along a Raspberry Pi running a virtual reality demo viewed with an early version Oculus Rift. Looking something like the image above, it featured a brick pi symbol floating on a sea of green…
Category: Programming
Happy Birthday to Raspberry Pi Python library GPIO Zero as it hits v1.3
One year ago, Ben Nuttall and Dave Jones began work on GPIO Zero, a Python library which sought to simplify access to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins. As of yesterday, it is now one year old and Ben has just…
Monitoring and controlling lawn lights using a Raspberry Pi
Dr Mark Smith has developed a system that allows him to control and program the lights on his lawn. In this very site-specific project, Smith uses a Raspberry Pi to give him a web interface to program timings and settings…
Which lavatory is free? Find out with the Raspberry Pi
Things you thought you’d never type! Chris Hoey and Daniel Benamy’s office has restroom (toilet) facilities spread out across the premises. As a result, it seems to be possible to spend much of the day hunting for a free cubicle.…
Find out who’s at home or in the office by using a Raspberry Pi and Initial State
Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a “who’s at home/who’s in the office” service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi…
Developer seeks help to update node-webkit (NW.js) for Raspberry Pi
NW.js (previously known as node-webkit) lets you call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies. Joan has been working on a binary port of the technology to ARMv6 so…
Catch those eggs in this cute Raspberry Pi / SenseHAT game
Dan Aldred wrote an article for MagPi issue 47 in which he creates a simple game using the SenseHAT and the Raspberry Pi. In the game, you play a red “basket” at the bottom of the screen which moves according to…
Using wireless modules with a Raspberry Pi to create a (very) active button game
Albert Hickey wanted to create a game for kids which would get them running around. So, he conceived a button-pressing game where buttons, mounted on tubes, would light up and need to be pressed to score points. This was similar…
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches SenseHAT emulator
Dave Honess, over at the Foundation, has just announced the availability of a SenseHAT emulator. It allows you to use a virtual SenseHAT and program it with the sense_hat Python library. Pretty neat! You can even manually alter the virtual…
Learn to Program with Minecraft – Book review
This is a somewhat belated review – I’ve had the book since January and have only just retrieved it from my suitcase! Apologies to Craig and No Starch Press; but the wait was worth it! Learn to Program with Minecraft is…