Martin O’Hanlon teamed up with David Whale at the weekend to give a talk on Minecraft to the Big Birthday Weekend crowd. For this presentation, Martin wanted to really show off the capabilities of programmable Minecraft and he has created a…
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ISS tracker with a Raspberry Pi and Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk’s really done a great job on this. Here’s an ISS tracker using a Raspberry Pi and the 8×8 Neopixel matrix of a Unicorn HAT. The Pi reads in the current co-ordinates and then plots the position on the Unicorn which has…
Interactive graphing on the Raspberry Pi using Plot.ly
Alex Eames has been experimenting with the API of an online service called Plot.ly which allows you to send it a packet full of data which it then plots into a graph. He’s written some sample code and instructions for you to…
Great review for Adventures in Minecraft book
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon’s “Adventures in Minecraft” is fast becoming the de-facto book for learning to program Minecraft through Python. In her ecstatic review of the book, Maryann Goldman of GeekMom.com takes us through the first few chapters which she…
Using the MeArm with the Raspberry Pi
Carl Monk has blogged about his experience building and using the MeArm from Phenoptix. The MeArm is a kit made from plastic which, when assembled, gives you a robotic arm controlled using servos. Carl has developed a web interface using the Flash…
Seven segment Raspberry Pi Ping-Pong
JCR Matos has created a circuit layout in Fritzing for a ping-pong game that you can reproduce for a bit of fun with your Pi. You need several components, including driver chips for the seven-segment displays. He’s included all the…
Remote control your Raspberry Pi using your phone
Robin Newman, who is normally to be found hacking with Sonic Pi, has turned his attention to an online service called Telegram. Using your mobile phone, you can send messages to Telegram which will send them to your Pi which…
Raspberry Pi 2 outshines the B+ in this multi-threaded performance test
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has written a Python script that tests out the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi 2’s quad-core processor by carrying out sorting operations on a massive list of words. The results are astounding. The Pi 2 clearly beats…
Marshmallow fun with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has adapted one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s resources into a single-page worksheet (pictured above) for use at his Code Club. The project uses a marshmallow and a paper clip to create a button which can be detected using ScratchGPIO.…
4tronix Agobo review – a cheap, hackable robotics kit for the Raspberry Pi
Gareth from 4tronix was kind enough to send me one of these to review and say what I like about it. Introduction The 4tronix Agobo is a robotics kit for the Raspberry Pi model A+. It comes as a kit…