Gus over at PiMyLifeUp has written some excellent software and accompanying tutorial that enables you to turn your Pi and SenseHAT into an email-inbox-status device. The SenseHAT’s LED matrix is used as a readout to tell you how many unread emails…
Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that there are brand new versions of the CamJam EduKit 1 worksheets now available from the CamJam website. In addition to the classic RPi.GPIO versions being revised to feature 40-pin Pis and various small typographical…
UK-based Ktinkerer recently got hold of the AIY Project Kit that came free with MagPi issue #57. She’s already successfully added some custom actions to it, based on the instructions given by Google and The MagPi. So, here are links to…
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…
Taron Foxworth over at Losant has done a great, short tutorial on preparing a Pi Zero W (or any Raspberry Pi with wifi capability, be it built-in or dongle, for that matter) for wifi connectivity and enabling ssh headlessly. This means…
Issue 57 of The MagPi is with us, and what a bumper issue it is. It comes with the hardware for a Google-powered artificial intelligence/voice recogniser project, or AIY Project. Here’s the MagPi’s description of the contents: Inside the…
In 2015, the Environment Agency released it’s LIDAR data to the general public. LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) uses a laser “to scan and map the landscape from above and is widely considered to be the best method for collecting very…
Every now and then, I review the Raspberry Pi learning resources page to find out what they’ve been working on. Today is one of those days! Getting Started with GUIs One of Laura‘s pet projects is GUI Zero, a wrapper for…
I don’t often link directly to YouTube videos – I prefer it when people build content posts around the videos to flesh them out a bit. However, this one was too good to pass up. The guys over at Tinkernut have posted…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has done a great tutorial on setting up a SenseHAT as a weather station. He goes through all the software and the Python code you will need. He’s also connected it up to the Initial State service…
