James Poole, who recently gave us a great way to put a Raspberry Pi Zero inside a SNES controller, has branched out into robotics. He’s gone about it the old-fashioned way by using an H-bridge chip to drive two motors attached…
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View and analyze the Astro Pi data in your web browser
Jamie Bailey from Initial State has been in contact. They have taken the data from Ed and Izzy, the two AstroPi units on the International Space Station, and imported it into their Internet of Things platform. They have made the entire graphing display…
Full Minecraft game running on a Raspberry Pi 3
Mike Hooper has been looking at ways to get the full version of Minecraft working on his Pi. He’s now managed it and has written up a tutorial over on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Great work, Mike! You can see…
How to free up space on your Raspberry Pi SD card
Alex Eames has just written a great tutorial which takes you through the process of removing specific packages from your Pi’s SD card. He chooses to remove Wolfram and LibreOffice for a massive 1.3GB space saving. If you’re running short of…
Infra-red baby monitor using the Raspberry Pi 3 and PiNoIR camera
Aaron Davies has posted his project up on the Element 14 website. In it, he creates a baby monitor using the a Raspberry Pi 3, a new Pi NoIR v2 camera module and some infra-red LEDs. He uses some software…
Game creation software available for free to Raspberry Pi users
The Game Creators have just announced that they have released their AppGameKit software for the Raspberry Pi free-of-charge. CEO Lee Bamber said: “It’s the full AppGameKit BASIC, which has the IDE, can compile and broadcast (includes broadcasting to iOS and Android…
GPIO Zero v1.2 for the Raspberry Pi hits Raspbian
GPIO Zero, the easy-to-use Python library for the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins has just had an update on the Raspbian repository. It’s been available for a couple of weeks now via a slightly convoluted route, but is now available with…
Simple, but effective interface to control a headless Raspberry Pi
Over at Make, Pičugins Arsenijs has been describing their project to create an interface for the Raspberry Pi when operating in headless mode. Hooked up to the serial line and providing a small LCD screen as a display is the…
Calculate Pi and print on a thermal printer from a Raspberry Pi
Billy has written an Instructable in which he explains how to calculate Pi in various ways before writing a method in Python code to do it. The result is then printed out on a thermal printer from Adafruit. The whole…
Find a car parking space with the Raspberry Pi
Humphrey Shotton and Nicholas Sanders identified that one of the causes of pollution in cities is that hundreds, possibly thousands, of cars routinely search for a parking space during morning rush hour. To help with this, they’ve developed a system which…