The latest issue of The MagPi is out and it looks to be a good one. The central feature is a “building a robot” special which aims to get you up-and-running for £50. We recently announced the third CamJam EduKit…
Category: Tutorials
Learn Minecraft coding on the Raspberry Pi with LavaTrap
Recently, Martin O’Hanlon attended PyCon UK. During the conference, he ran workshops using Minecraft Pi Edition during which participants could create a game called “LavaTrap”. The end result of the game is that you have to avoid the lava by…
Make your own set of piano stairs with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino
Back in November 2013, Bonnie Eisenman and her team used light sensors and torches to create a set of musical stairs at Princeton: The team have now written up the project as an Instructable so you can create your very own…
Pairing a bluetooth keyboard with the Raspberry Pi
Using a Bluetooth keyboard can be a pain in the backside. Fortunately, Tom Herbison has written a neat little tutorial on how to get it working. Read it here.
Make your own weather station with some sensors and a Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Use a Codebug to take pictures with your Raspberry Pi
Codebug, the ex-Kickstarter project, is now on sale at CPC for £15. The small board can be connected up to a Raspberry Pi via USB and used as an input device via a Python library. Thomas Macpherson-Pope has, over on the…
Map the Minecraft world around you on a Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have published a new SenseHAT tutorial. This one interrogates Minecraft Pi and creates a map of the surrounding blocks. This map is then sent to the SenseHAT where it is displayed on the 8×8 LED matrix. Read…
Use Kivy to create a touchscreen GUI on the Raspberry Pi display
When the new Raspberry Pi display launched on Tuesday one of the most exciting things for me was shown on the Raspberry Pi blog – a touch screen GUI written using a Python library called Kivy. The demo was done by the Foundation’s…
Make a Magic 8 Ball with the Raspberry Pi and the SenseHAT
Carrie Anne Philbin has written a lovely new resource for the Raspberry Pi Learning Resources website. It uses the recently-launched SenseHAT to create a Magic 8 Ball. You ask it a question and then shake the whole Pi and HAT (triggering…
Network-wide ad blocker using a Raspberry Pi
Jacob Salmela has created a new version of Raspbian called ‘Pi Hole’. The operating system has been designed to be a DNS-server which blocks ads for your entire network. All you need to do is download the image, install it on an…