Carrie Anne Philbin has written a lovely new resource for the Raspberry Pi Learning Resources website. It uses the recently-launched SenseHAT to create a Magic 8 Ball. You ask it a question and then shake the whole Pi and HAT (triggering…
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Investigate the Minecraft API on the Raspberry Pi with NodeRED
Boris Adryan is running a workshop at CamJam on 12th September and, ahead of this, he’s published his learning material. The workshop is all about how you can use Javascript and NodeRED to interact with the Minecraft Pi Edition API.…
Artificial pancreas for diabetics run by a Raspberry Pi
This blew me away when I read it. Seattle-based Dana Lewis suffers from Type 1 Diabetes, and has done since she was 14. One of the issues facing diabetics is that during the night, despite having all kinds of different…
Lizard selfies with a Raspberry Pi
Roberto Marquez has set-up a Raspberry Pi to take pictures of his lizard. The Pi listens for a GPIO pin to change state, triggered by a capacitive touch sensor. All his Java code is available on GitHub. You can see a…
LEDs that move and mirror your hand movements with a Leap Motion and a Raspberry Pi
Over at PubNub, they’ve been using Java to do some great things. This time, they’re using it to interact with a Leap Motion. Movements in the user’s hands are replicated with servos. Attached to the servos are some 8×8 LED…
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi RPi.GPIO Quick Reference Ruler before time runs out!
I’ve just realised that the campaign I’ve been featuring on the blog for the last few weeks is almost at an end. The RasPiO GPIO Ruler is a great little reference guide to the RPi.GPIO Python library that (almost) everyone uses to interact…
More RPi.GPIO wisdom from RasPi.TV for the Raspberry Pi
In addition to Tuesday’s blog post about RPI_INFO, Alex has also discovered a new function call inside the RPi.GPIO Python library: getmode(). This is a companion to setmode() and reads back what mode the library is set to – BCM, BOARD or…
Pi Piano HATs start to be delivered – a first look
Sandy Macdonald must have ordered a Pi Piano HAT from Pimoroni on virtually the day it was released and has now written up his thoughts about the board, stepping through the example programs and detailing a way to get the…
RPi.GPIO Python library for the Raspberry Pi undergoes a change
Alex Eames has been looking at recent updates to the Python library everybody uses, RPi.GPIO, and has noticed something. The old variable RPI_REVISION has been deprecated (replaced) by something more useful: RPI_INFO. This new variable outputs a Python dictionary detailing…
Create a Raspberry Pi iBeacon and iPhone app
Shea Silverman has blogged about creating a bluetooth iBeacon by using a Bluetooth dongle with a Raspberry Pi. He’s written comprehensive, though brief, instructions for setting up the iBeacon and then gone on to explain how to alter the downloadable software to…