Simon Walters has announced the release of version 7 of ScratchGPIO, the brilliant version of Scratch that enables you to use the Pi’s GPIO pins. According to Simon, the new version contains: Background engine room stuff Support for the PiAndBash…
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Pi & Bash tutorials released for the Raspberry Pi
A few days ago, I published a review of the Pi & Bash add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Rob Boyle, who created the board, has been in touch – he’s started writing coding tutorials for the P&B and I thought…
Raspberry Pi Wifi-Controlled Cat Laser Toy
PLEASE READ THE NOTES OF CAUTION BELOW I wasn’t going to feature this and then I thought I would with a note of caution. Here’s an Adafruit tutorial in which you construct a remotely-operated laser-pointer cat toy. The project provides…
Use the Raspberry Pi Displayotron 3000 as a countdown timer
Brian Corteil has written a nice Python script which works out how much time there is until the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend and then displays it on a Pimoroni Displayotron 3000. Nice use for this cute little add-on board.…
Stock prices on the Raspberry Pi
Scott Kildall has written a short Instructable which tells you how to obtain and print out data from the Yahoo Finance API. Interesting to those of you who like to have data sources with which to do interesting things. Read…
Interactive Raspberry Pi-controlled dorm window
Devon, at EsoLogic, has created a Raspberry Pi app which detects tweets to a specific account and then changes the colour of the light in a Massachusetts dorm room, thus making the window change a different colour. The account then tweets you back…
Building a voting system with the Raspberry Pi
The folks at Joypad Bar (@joypadbar, joypadbar.co.uk) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. They got a Raspberry Pi and some huuuuuuge buttons and wrote some Python…
Scrolling text on the Raspberry Pi Unicorn HAT
Richard Hayler (who wrote an excellent blog post on generating 3D text inside Minecraft) has also written some code which will scroll text across a Unicorn HAT. Read his blog post about it here. You can buy a Unicorn HAT for around…
Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi – See your name in blocks!
Richard Hayler wanted a way to produce Minecraft-themed birthday cards for his sons friends. So, he decided to use Minecraft Pi Edition to it! He wrote a script which takes in the name you want to generate and then pipes…
Raspberry Pi robot with streaming video and a web remote control
Carl Monk’s been busy. He’s taken some components that he’s collected during his time working with the Pi and has come up with a robot that streams live video and allows you to control it over a mobile phone or tablet…