A maker called msana has posted his latest project in Hackster.IO. It is a robot, based on a 3D printer, with a Raspberry Pi & camera module attached. The camera takes a photo of a Sudoku puzzle placed on the print…
Andrew Oakley from Cotswold Raspberry Jam wanted to try out the x86 version of Raspbian. However, he wanted to run it inside VirtualBox on his Windows 10 PC to save having to have another machine with just Raspbian running on it.…
Christopher Aedo has written an article over on opensource.com in which he explains how he has set-up a Raspberry Pi to monitor his home-brewing equipment. It’s a pretty sophisticated set-up that uses CraftBeerPi to provide an interface to several sensor readings. You can…
There’s a new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) on the block. Called Thonny, it has just been added into the Raspbian image. The MagPi has done a great tutorial and walkthrough of the features of the editor here. Opinion I recently…
Don Watkins over at OpenSource.com has written a software tutorial in which he installs the Calibre e-book management system onto a Raspberry Pi and then configures it to act as an e-book server. Take a look here.
Les Pounder has been having a play with Laura‘s GUI Zero Python library which makes it easy to create GUIs. He’s created a program which reads in news via RSS and then displays the top news stories inside a miniature GUI.…
Simon Long has just posted on the Raspberry Pi website about an update to Raspbian that has just been released. The following changes have been implemented: Scratch 2.0 (offline version) pre-installed, including ability to do physical computing! Thonny IDE for Python…
Bomani, Eunice, and Matt have created a project called Waves which allows you to see the spoken word in printed form. A set of colour-coded questions is posed and you are then invited to answer them whilst pressing a colour-coded button.…
I’ve not had much experience with Docker – haven’t really seen the point until now. However, with his new tutorial, Alex Ellis makes a convincing argument. Docker is a way of packaging up software into an image, much like Raspbian…
Those of us who were lucky enough to get hold of the new issue of The MagPi, with the AIY project give-away, have been beavering away over the weekend trying to get our cardboard boxes to understand a word we’re…
