Richard Hayler has adapted one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s resources into a single-page worksheet (pictured above) for use at his Code Club. The project uses a marshmallow and a paper clip to create a button which can be detected using ScratchGPIO.…
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DesignSpark Raspberry Pi classroom projects
DesignSpark have published some good-looking resources for teachers to use in the classroom to help students learn about the GPIO. They are as follows: Program a seven-segment display. Read digital signals and analogue signals (via an A2D chip) and how…
Building a voting system with the Raspberry Pi
The folks at Joypad Bar (@joypadbar, joypadbar.co.uk) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. They got a Raspberry Pi and some huuuuuuge buttons and wrote some Python…
Raspberry Pi robot with streaming video and a web remote control
Carl Monk’s been busy. He’s taken some components that he’s collected during his time working with the Pi and has come up with a robot that streams live video and allows you to control it over a mobile phone or tablet…
Launched today: Flotilla from Pimoroni – easy hacking for the Raspberry Pi
It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
Mobile Raspberry Pi GPS streamer
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written a tutorial that takes you through the process of using Adafruit’s Ultimate GPS Breakout Board to take readings and then stream them to Initial State’s server using their API to get a…
Tennessee Aquarium’s electric eel uses a Raspberry Pi to tweet
Never thought I’d ever write that sentence! The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga (which is just an awesome place – I visited a couple of years ago) have an electric eel called Miguel Wattson. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, some Python programming and…
Animated GIF Raspberry Pi picture frame
Here’s another project using the PiTFT from Adafruit. Timothy Reese has written a tutorial over at Adafruit in which he hacks together some off-the-shelf components and creates a rather nice picture frame. He then uses Chromium in kiosk mode to…
Handheld Linux terminal using a Raspberry Pi
Chris Robinson has taken a Pi, a PiTFT screen, some hard drive enclosures and some other small components and created an ultra-portable handheld Linux terminal. It’s very nifty and it’s been a while since I’ve seen something so small and,…
Machine learning with an engine and a Raspberry Pi
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough time at the moment to fully understand this one! I’ll let Liz Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation explain: Adam Vaughan is controlling an engine with an adaptive Extreme Learning Machine algorithm on his Pi,…