Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are: Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used…
Category: Research
Fast molecular data processing with the Raspberry Pi
I can’t pretend that I know exactly what Matt Williams is talking about in his article, but suffice to say he’s doing something very impressive with his Pi. I’ll let him explain: Substructure substance matching is, in many ways, a…
Cosmic-ray project with Raspberry Pi wins IOP prize
A 15 year old schoolboy won the Institute of Physics prize at the recent Big Bang Fair by using a Raspberry Pi to analyse sensor readings and prove part of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Pratap Singh, from The Perse School…
Flash flood predictions with Raspberry Pi weather stations
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have teamed up with other international partners to develop 3D-printed weather stations that will help to predict flash floods in underdeveloped countries, and they use the…
Raspberry Pis used to track bees at Kew Gardens
This one is guaranteed to get my buzzing phobia going! A Newcastle-based engineer has developed a system to track the flight paths and behaviour of bees at London’s Kew Gardens. A pack consisting of a tiny RFID tag and an…
Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 2
Hayden James has done a great article on the various overclocking options available on the Pi 2. There are plenty of examples of configurations if you want that extra speed. Read more here.
Check your stock values on the Raspberry Pi command line
Blake wanted to track his investments from the command line. He’s compiled a package called ‘Go’ that uses the Yahoo YQL API to pull stock data from the internet. He has then written a tutorial to show you how to…
Tech specs for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi HAT released
Dave Honess has posted the technical specs of the Astro Pi HAT which is due to go up to the International Space Station. The Astro Pi project, which invites schools to suggest experiments to be conducted in orbit, will send two Raspberry…
The evolution of Raspberry Pi… in LEGO
This is by far the coolest thing on the Internet. Richard Hayler and his sons have constructed a huge LEGO representation of the history of Raspberry Pi tracking it’s evolution from concept to its eventual Astro Pi launch into space…
Raspberry Pi – Where do I start?
Introduction You can skip this part if you’re not interested in the reasons for this post! 🙂 I am regularly asked by people, normally as a result of either a CamJam or lately as a result of the Big Birthday…