It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
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Mobile Raspberry Pi GPS streamer
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written a tutorial that takes you through the process of using Adafruit’s Ultimate GPS Breakout Board to take readings and then stream them to Initial State’s server using their API to get a…
Touchscreen JavaFX 8 on Raspberry Pi
Pance Cavkovski has written a nice tutorial on programming a touchscreen interface, using the PiTFT screen, using JavaFX 8. His project involves an NFC plug-in board which scans your access card and then prompts you to enter a code, thus…
Motion detection with the Raspberry Pi camera
Clayton Lambert has written a nice Python script which takes a picture with the camera module and scans it for changed pixels, indicating motion. It uses the picamera library and I think it’s particularly good because you can see how it looks…
Snake on the Raspberry Pi using the Unicorn HAT
Paul Brown has blogged about some code publicly released by another Paul Brown. The code, when installed, will allow you to play the game of Snake on a Unicorn HAT using the arrow keys for control. You can view the code…
Use a Raspberry Pi and a cheap dongle to track aeroplanes
London-based Sopwith has taken a DVB-T dongle, plugged it into his Raspberry Pi and used software packages and scripts he has written himself to create an aeroplane tracker that plots onto a map. Read how to do it by viewing…
Artist experiments with networking on the Raspberry Pi
Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Grant has been experimenting with small mesh networks to see if they can be used for art installations. She’s created something call SubNodes: The Subnodes project is an open source initiative focused on streamlining the process of setting up…
Word clock using a Raspberry Pi and a Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk has taken a model A+ and a Unicorn HAT add-on board and created a clock which tells the time in plain English. It does this by lighting up the Neopixels on the HAT in a specific pattern to…
BBC Radio on the Raspberry Pi controlled with a tiny web server
Stephen Phillips wanted to listen to BBC radio stations on his Raspberry Pi, but control which station via his mobile phone. So, he’s created a small web server and some interface code to enable him to do it. He’s open-sourced…
Embedded art installation with Raspberry Pi
Malte Steiner and Wolfgang Spahn are exploring the artistic potential of embedded open source systems. In their new project “Embedded Artist”, they have used Raspberry Pis and Paper Duinos. Here’s what they say about their project: The performance combines four…