Denis Papathanasiou has taken an off-the-shelf USB barcode scanner and plugged it into his Raspberry Pi. He’s then written some code to use barcode data stored at the Open Product Data (POD) project to tell the Pi what the product is and then…
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Raspberry Pi Model B+ price slashed
Despite the Pi 2 being the newest and hottest Pi out there, the Model B+ has continued to sell well. As a side effect of optimisations made to the manufacturing process for the Raspberry Pi 2, the B+ is now…
Fridge with a Raspberry Pi automatically orders fruit for you
American Steve Hickson has done an excellent home automation proof-of-concept. He’s placed a Raspberry Pi and camera module inside his fridge (and made sure that the light stayed on). The Pi takes a picture, analyses it and identifies whether there…
Lisiparoi Raspberry Pi camera light – Review
Lisiparoi creator Jason Barnett was kind enough to send me one to review, so here goes… Introduction The Lisiparoi is, simply, a light for your Raspberry Pi camera module. It comes in two flavours: the white Lisiparoi is for the normal…
RyanTeck TrafficHAT for the Raspberry Pi is now available
A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed the RyanTeck TrafficHAT and gave it a solid 9/10. I’m pleased to say that it is now available to purchase. You can get hold of the HAT for under £10 delivered direct from RyanTeck…
TrafficHAT from RyanTeck for the Raspberry Pi – review
The TrafficHAT from RyanTeck is a simple-to-use add-on board for later models of the Raspberry Pi. It plugs into the 40-pin GPIO header and gives you access to 3 large LEDs, a button and a buzzer. It sounds simple, and…
Slice media player powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module starts shipping
Following months of development, the Slice media player has started to ship to Kickstarter backers. It was announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that 1500 Slice kits were being assembled for delivery to backers and that a further 1500 were…
Fun soldering practice with A Kit A Month
Generally, if you’ve learned how to solder then you love to solder! It’s a nice skill to have but you have to keep doing it to keep that skill fresh, I reckon. Andrew Gale, who did the brilliant GPIO Christmas…
Save 50% on O’Reilly Raspberry Pi books
O’Reilly are having a sale. They have 4 Raspberry Pi-themed ‘Make’ books on offer: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (co-written by Raspberry Pi’s own Matt Richardson) Make a Raspberry Pi-controlled Robot Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects (co-written by master hacker…
Linux User Raspberry Pi robotics guide
In a recent Linux User magazine, they featured a great section all about the different types of robots out there for the Raspberry Pi. The editors decided to base the article around the Pi Wars challenges, which was very nice…