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…
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New resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation help you to drill into Weather Station data
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a couple of new resources, this time they’re focused on weather. In particular, these resources help you to use the data collected from all those Weather Station boards that they sent out and to…
Dude, Where’s My… Bus? A 3D-printed bus tracker housing a Raspberry Pi
Over at DesignSpark, Dr Lucy Rogers has written a great tutorial which fuses the Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, an ESP8266 module and some Neopixels into a bus warning system. The system has the following features: A visual alert to tell…
Creating a piece of Raspberry Pi powered Neopixel light furniture
James Poole has taken a string of Neopixels (UK/USA) and hooked it up to an Arduino. He’s then taken a Raspberry Pi and used it to control the Arduino via a web interface. James then mounted the whole lot on…
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…
Sega Genesis gets a Raspberry Pi 3 upgrade
Michael Lyons from Florida has taken a second-hand Radica Sega Genesis system (which he bought off eBay for a dollar), prised it apart, removed the innards and replaced them with a Raspberry Pi 3. And all in one sitting! He’s recorded…
Raspberry Pi launches a new series of first-look guides
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has soft-launched a whole series of guides for using the Raspberry Pi and various add-ons. The guides are as follows: Hardware guide Software guide Parents’ guide Teachers’ guide Troubleshooting guide Add-ons guide Great resources, well worth…
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…
Build a chess computer via a noughts-and-crosses computer with a Raspberry Pi
Maxim has used a Raspberry Pi to create a chess computer and he’s documented the entire process. (The game) runs from an Arduino which controls the board, connected to a Raspberry PI which runs the chess engine Stockfish and a…