Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has been looking at the Energenie range of products and, more specifically, at a set of two sockets and control board that he bought. The control board, called the Pi-mote, is a GPIO…
Maker and Educator Spencer Organ has recently re-launched his website and can now be found at www.themakercupboard.space. As part of the re-launch, he’s blogged about his latest project – a Spiderman-themed lamp which changes colour when he is mentioned in a…
London-based educator Giles Booth has taken an Inky pHAT from Pimoroni and placed it on top of his Raspberry Pi. He’s then used screen-scraping software Beautiful Soup to interrogate the MET office website and grab ride times. The script to do this…
Drew Wallace wanted a handheld gaming device that could stream games from a gaming PC, but that was totally portable. For this, he’s used a Raspberry Pi loaded with streaming software Parsec and added a Pi touchscreen, LiPo battery and an…
Giles Booth decided to finally buy an SDR (software-defined radio) dongle and plug it into his Raspberry Pi. With the dongle and some software he installed, he was able to view live Freeview television stations and even record them on…
Giles Booth has recently been rediscovering the Flotilla range from Pimoroni. By putting together various components, such as the Flotilla dock, a slider, a touch-button add-on and an 8×8 matrix, he’s created an internet radio. The back-end is MPC and…
When you’re ready to move from Scratch to Python, this transition can be quite painful. Suddenly, you’re faced with a pure-text programming interface and even with IDEs like Thonny helping you to get things going, you’re still left with the fundamental…
Giles Booth has followed on from Matt Hawkins’ work on using a Wiimote and hooked the Bluetooth remote control device up to the Pi and made it control Turtle graphics. You can change pen colour, lift and place the pen…
Like many people, I have a Chromebook. I use this machine whenever I can’t be bothered to unload my laptop, and for when I’m down in The Den (my large maker shed at the bottom of the garden, like fairies,…
Mozilla have just announced the launch of the Things Gateway. Aimed at providing a common interface for various non-web-enabled wireless devices to get them onto the internet, the Things Gateway is fully open-source and is an implementation of a “Web…
