Cymplecy has released a new version of his Scratch GPIO software for the Raspberry Pi. It allows you to run Scratch in parallel with a back-end script that interfaces between the visual environment and the GPIO. Read more here and…
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Adafruit WebIDE for the #RaspberryPi gets a big update
Adafruit have been busy updating their WebIDE development environment for the Raspberry Pi. There’s a huge amount of new stuff and improvements; these have been covered brilliantly by the Foundation over on their blog. You can find out more about the…
Change the colour of Will’s #RaspberryPi desk
Great Internet of Things project from William Wnekowicz – you control the colour of his desk area at some date in the future by choosing from a colour wheel. It’s all powered on a Raspberry Pi running PHP and Python scripts…
Balancing Robot using a #RaspberryPi doesn’t fall over
Mark Williams has been working on a two-wheeled balancing robot using a Raspberry Pi to do some impressive calculations. It uses an accelerometer to work out angles and gyros to compensate for overbalance. Here’s a video of the robot in…
First demo of motor control for #RaspberryPi camera platform / @Raspberry_Pi
I decided this morning to shoot a video of my progress so far on the SpacePi, which is intended to be a motorised platform for taking astronomical photographs using the Raspberry Pi with the official camera module. Here are the…
Lisp on the #RaspberryPi
It’s always great to see another programming language being used on the Raspberry Pi. Phil Yeeles has worked out a way to develop using the Lisp language on the Pi. Read his blog for more information
Running JVM language Golo on a #RaspberryPi
Golo is a fledgling language that runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The guys over at Golo have worked out how to get it working on a Raspberry Pi, primarily because it’s cooler than using a Cloud…
#RaspberryPi weather station with a USB display
Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD…
Learn Python – Creating Functions on the #RaspberryPi
David Briddock is continuing his excellent series of Python tutorials and learning exercises. This time he covers creating functions. Read more here
Perl and #RaspberryPi – using the second I2C bus
Mark Dootson has been doing some experimental work with the second I2C bus available on the Pi by soldering pins onto the P5 header. He is then using Perl to communicate with the bus, although I’d imagine it would be…