The guys over at Dexter Industries have put together a GoPiGo kit and then loaded onto it several pieces of software that allow you to issue voice commands to your robot. It’s a little laggy, due to the amount of inter-connection…
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Making a Raspberry Pi motion tracking nerf gun turret
The guys over at YouTube channel Hacker House have used a Raspberry Pi as the brains behind a motion tracking, nerf gun turret. They’ve published a video which shows you how to build the turret and install the software. There…
Slack client for the Commodore 64 uses Raspberry Pi to connect to the outside world
Jeff Harris recently identified a severe problem with Slack: there isn’t a client for the Commodore 64. I know, crazy, huh? So, he decided to write one in 6502 assembly. Using a C64 Userport device, he’s connected the Commodore to a…
Nixie Tube tweet photographer using a Raspberry Pi
Wotcher @recantha here’s your pic. pic.twitter.com/U7rJmJGUKM — Neon Clock Tweet Bot (@NixieBot) December 1, 2016 Robin Bussell has created a Nixie Tube clock that listens out for a Twitter hashtag (#NixieBotShowMe) and then displays the tweet text on the tubes.…
Raspbian updated to disable SSH by default on the Raspberry Pi
Simon Long has just announced an update to Raspbian in which SSH will be disabled by default. For most people, this relatively minor change won’t cause any problem – you can use your Pi just as you did before. However,…
Internet of Things Christmas tree uses Alexa and a Raspberry Pi
Alex Ellis has taken a mini Christmas tree, a NeoPixel strip, some jumper wires and an Alexa/Echo Dot and created an Internet of Things device that is sure to get your blinkiness senses going. The Alexa communicates with the Raspberry…
Mexican bacteriological experiment produces biology-driven music via a Raspberry Pi
A Mexican team of Paloma López, Leslie García, and Emmanuel Anguiano (together, they are known as Interspecifics) have created a nature-driven musical instrument. Micro-ritmos is an art installation in which ‘music’ is generated by patterns formed by bacterial cells. The material…
Download BBC programmes via get_iplayer on the Raspberry Pi
get_iplayer is a set of scripts that can be used to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Recently, Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV noticed that something was amiss and that the scripts no longer worked. Well, he has now come…
Run x86 Linux apps on the Raspberry Pi with Exagear
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has been looking at Exagear Desktop, a piece of Raspberry Pi-compatible software that allows you to run x86 apps. He has tried out the software and written up some how-tos to get various pieces of software…
Plot SenseHAT pressure data onto a graph using a Raspberry Pi
There’s an air pressure sensor on the SenseHAT which you can access via Python. A coder over at BlogMyWiki has used taken these readings and then used the matplotlib library to create a graph of the results. It’s a nice, clear example…