Last year, Los Angeles-based software engineer Michelle Leonhart brought two Roborovski hamster puppies into her home. Since then, she read on the internet that the average Roborovski hamster runs four marathons every night. She decided to put that to the test. Enter the Raspberry…
Category: Research
Martian adventures for the Raspberry Pi
Exploring Mars is likely to be the most exciting scientific project of this century. Whenever it happens, it will capture the imagination of adults and children alike. There are just a few hurdles to overcome first! Like getting there… One of the issues…
Flight safety testing details for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi
Since March, the Astro Pi package, that will go onto the International Space Station, has been undergoing a series of rigorous tests to demonstrate it’s space-worthiness. Dave Honess has blogged over at the Foundation about exactly what it’s been through…
Analysing traffic patterns with the Raspberry Pi
Over at MathWorks’ MakerZone, Eric Wetjen has written a tutorial/article in which he shows a way of using a webcam to count cars on a highway. The webcam captures images and then they use Simulink to analyse the images. The data is then sent…
Developer seeks funding for remotely operated underwater vehicle powered by a Raspberry Pi
Sam Groome is an apprentice at an ROV manufacturer and a college student finishing his HND in electrical/electronic engineering. He has a dream: an underwater Raspberry Pi-powered remote controlled vehicle. The ROV is tethered to the surface via a cable and signals are…
Oxford Flood Network uses Raspberry Pis to detect rising water
The Oxford Flood Network uses a network of ultrasonic sensors in a flood-prone area to detect water levels and broadcast their data over short distances to Raspberry Pi-based gateways; these aggregate the data and pass it to an open online…
Listening for bats using a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have blogged about this great project from Germans Holger and Henrike Körber. They are using a USB high-sensitivity microphone to pick up on bat calls. This is plugged into a Raspberry Pi which records the data and allows them…
RPi.GPIO Python library for the Raspberry Pi undergoes a change
Alex Eames has been looking at recent updates to the Python library everybody uses, RPi.GPIO, and has noticed something. The old variable RPI_REVISION has been deprecated (replaced) by something more useful: RPI_INFO. This new variable outputs a Python dictionary detailing…
Best wi-fi dongle for the Raspberry Pi – a group test
Alex Eames has conducted a series of field tests (okay, not in a field exactly) on three wi-fi dongles: the official Foundation dongle, a standard Edimax dongle and the dongle from The Pi Hut. He tried them out in different locations…
Marine ecology monitoring using the Raspberry Pi
A team from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a Passive Acoustic Monitoring device, is a sonic spectrometer which measures underwater audio signals and records them, thus allowing researchers…