Here’s a quick piece of code for you. James Abela has been experimenting with the Minecraft API through Python and has developed a way to create a series of skyscrapers very quickly. He even gives them windows! This is a…
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Stream a Raspberry Pi camera into VR with Javascript
Patrick Catanzariti has written a tutorial in which he streams the video output from a Raspberry Pi camera then splits it into a stereo view in Javascript. This enables him to view the page through Google Cardboard and get a Raspberry Pi-powered…
2048 game port for the Raspberry Pi written in Assembly
Four students from Imperial College London have ported the game 2048 across to the Pi using Assembly language. Franklin Schrans, Jacek Burys, Saurav Mitra, Srikrishna Subrahmanyam teamed up for their first year final ARM project, coded the game and then added a…
Monitor the status of the London Underground with a Raspberry Pi and Neopixels
Ismail Uddin over at ScienceExposure.com has done a lovely tutorial, with accompanying code, that mines the London Underground API for tube line status information and then changes a Neopixel ring to give you an idea of how well everything is running. Read…
Bare metal game of DOOM on the Raspberry Pi
Four students from Imperial College, London (Bálint Rikker, Csongor Kiss, Sicong Li and Toby Shaw) teamed up for their first year final project. The project aimed to re-write classic shooter DOOM to the Raspberry Pi via 9800 lines of ‘bare metal’ code (i.e. ARM assembly code and…
I2C sensor reading with Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi
Olivier Matis has written a programming tutorial which shows you how to use an I2C barometric/temperature sensor (the good old BMP180) from within Window 10 IoT. Take a look here.
Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code
California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka ScarabCoder) has created a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). He’s taken some LEDs and buttons to create a ‘keypad’ of sorts and then written some…
Raspberry Pi internet monitor boasts a biiiiiiig light tower
Instructables user talk2bruce has created a truly great tutorial. In it, he shows you how to build a highly visible internet monitor. The Raspberry Pi is used to ping a site on the internet and then, based on the response, switches the…
Social network monitor with Pygame on the Raspberry Pi
Richard “Average Man” Saville has built on Spencer Organ’s work on his PiTFT Internet Radio to create a “social network monitor”. He uses web-page scraping to get the data he needs (such as number of followers on Twitter, number of ‘likes’ on…
Simon Says game made with a Raspberry Pi and a Pimoroni ExplorerHAT
Richard Hayler has produced a Simon Says game by wiring up some LEDs onto the breadboard of an ExplorerHAT and then writing the necessary Python code. The LEDs light up in a sequence which you then match by pressing the ExplorerHAT…