The Raspberry Pi Foundation have posted some news about the Astro Pi competition. All the winners have now been selected and it is now clear whose code will be run on the International Space Station. There is a mix of private…
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GPIO reference ruler for the Raspberry Pi – new Kickstarter from RasPi.TV
Like the look of that and want one already? Head over to Kickstarter! Do you find yourself constantly forgetting how to set-up the RPi.GPIO Python library? I know I do: trying to remember the correct way of doing things has…
Mental health patient tracking with the Raspberry Pi
Canadian Bell Eapen has decided to leverage the inherent cheapness of the Raspberry Pi and the coolness of Bluetooth beacons to set-up a tracking facility for patients in mental health institutions. It’s just an idea at the moment, but he…
Pinout diagram for the Raspberry Pi Model 2 B
PighiXXX previously created a pinout for the Raspberry Pi Model B. They have now created a new one for the recently released Model 2 B. Take a look at it in more detail here.
Space-age information distribution with Outernet and the Raspberry Pi
Outernet is an interesting service that broadcasts a large amount of internet-mined content via an orbiting satellite. Anyone can receive it, providing they have the appropriate equipment, on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s some info on the information that is being broadcast…
Eye-controlled wheelchair uses Raspberry Pi 2
Myrijam Stoetzer (14) and Paul Foltin (15) from Duisburg, Germany wanted to create a system whereby a wheelchair could be controlled by tracking eye movements. The eye tracker is made from a webcam mounted in the frames of some safety glasses. They use…
Aerial photography from a kite with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler (who has previously done very many cool things with a Pi) has developed his own “kite mapping” rig using a Raspberry Pi. He’s taken a model A+, a camera module, an Xtrinsic Sensor board and a ProtoCam prototyping board, meshed…
Automated waste sorter uses a Raspberry Pi
Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
“Digital Twin” concept uses a Raspberry Pi to model a mountain bike
International company PTC has unveiled a new concept known as a “Digital Twin”. They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. These sensors feed into a Raspberry Pi which interprets the data and creates a virtual ‘twin’…
Monitor your broadband speed with Loggly and a Raspberry Pi
Stephen Phillips has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial in which he measures his broadband speed (ping, upload and download) and then sends the data to a free service called Loggly. Really interesting stuff and a great use for an always-connected-via-ethernet-cable…