NASA has taken the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, developed their own host board, added a few other components, and created the Pi-Sat (the innards of which are displayed in the picture above). The Pi-Sat is being used in classrooms to…
Category: Research
International background radiation research project uses Raspberry Pi
A group of UC Berkeley students working with researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed devices that will measure and report levels of background radiation. Called DoseNet, the open-source project aims to get…
Raspberry Pi-powered book scanner for Ethiopean education
Following the lead of a Dean from an Ethiopean university, who could see that the high cost of textbooks was holding back developing world countries, a group has got together to build a €500 book scanner that turns the pages…
Track your weight with this set of scales that uses a Raspberry Pi and a Wii Balance Board
Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
NYU graduates create street quality measurement device using a Raspberry Pi
Varun Adibhatla and Graham Henke are two graduates from New York University. They have developed a system which records the condition of roads and then generates a clickable, interactive map that displays the position of road imperfections (such as pot…
Cosmic ray detector for the Raspberry Pi from CERN
A team from CERN in Switzerland has been developing a Raspberry Pi-based cosmic ray detector. The system, called Cosmic Pi, will be a distributed project with each individual system on the internet contributing to the overall readings. The core of the…
Raspberry Pis in space aboard Atlas V rocket!
An unmanned Cygnus cargo freighter, powered by an Atlas V rocket, has just taken off from Florida. On board are two Raspberry Pi Astro Pi units destined for the International Space Station. So exciting! Lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.…
RasPi.TV updates the Raspberry Pi family photo
Whenever a new Pi comes out, Alex Eames from RasPi.TV likes to take a photograph of all of the different models of Pi. He’s done it again with the advent of the Pi Zero – you can see the photograph above.…
Power measurements for the Raspberry Pi Zero
As he does usually with new models of Raspberry Pi, Alex Eames has done a series of power usage measurements for the new Pi Zero. You can read his findings here.
Create an aircraft RADAR with a Raspberry Pi and Pi Aware
Martin O’Hanlon has previously used Pi Aware to access publicly available data about aircraft positions. Now he has taken his work further by creating a RADAR system that displays aircraft positions relative to your GPS co-ordinates. It’s a great example of…