The Game Creators have just announced that they have released their AppGameKit software for the Raspberry Pi free-of-charge. CEO Lee Bamber said: “It’s the full AppGameKit BASIC, which has the IDE, can compile and broadcast (includes broadcasting to iOS and Android…
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GPIO Zero v1.2 for the Raspberry Pi hits Raspbian
GPIO Zero, the easy-to-use Python library for the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins has just had an update on the Raspbian repository. It’s been available for a couple of weeks now via a slightly convoluted route, but is now available with…
FUZEBOX: a new peripheral for teaching coding from the makers of the FUZE
The makers of the Raspberry Pi-based FUZE computer have just launched a new Kickstarter campaign to fund the FUZEBOX. The FUZEBOX is a peripheral designed to plug into any device via USB, whether this be a PC, Mac, or Linux box,…
Control your terrarium with a Raspberry Pi and Energenie
A terrarium really is a beautiful thing. Tom Bennet has placed a temperature sensor inside his terrarium box and then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to it. The Pi controls an Energenie home automation switch to maintain the environment inside. Take…
Take the Minecraft Bedrock Challenge with the Raspberry Pi and The MagPi
The MagPi has just published a fun little tutorial which gives you the code for “The Bedrock Challenge”. In Minecraft Pi Edition, the Python code generates a random, invisible arena with holes in the floor that you must avoid to prevent…
Creating a Python Package on the Raspberry Pi
These instructions will work for any Linux environment. Ben Croston, who wrote RPi.GPIO (and brewed the wonderful Irration Ale for this year’s Pi Birthday Weekend from his Fuzzy Duck Brewery) has written a tutorial for creating a proper “package” out…
Using the Flotilla Python library on the Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ backed the Flotilla Kickstarter by Pimoroni and finally received his Mega Treasure Chest in March. He’s now begun to get to grips with the Python library that comes with it and has made a clever light meter and display using three…
Use the Raspberry Pi and the BBC micro:bit together with MicroPython and mu
Over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, they say that they’re “platform agnostic”. In other words, whatever people can use to learn coding and electronics is all for the good. That’s why it’s encouraging to see them publish a new set of…
Code a holdable button with GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon has worked out how to extend GPIO Zero and has coded up a ‘holdable button’. This means that you can code a physical button to do one thing on a momentary press and another thing when the button is…
Raspberry Pi-powered invasion of privacy camera turned into unsettling work of art
25-year old Dries Depoorter has used a Raspberry Pi to monitor a webcam installed at an intersection in Fredericton, Canada. It uses image processing algorithms to determine if people are crossing the road illegally (jaywalking) and then allows visitors to an art gallery to…