Carl Monk has taken a model A+ and a Unicorn HAT add-on board and created a clock which tells the time in plain English. It does this by lighting up the Neopixels on the HAT in a specific pattern to…
Category: Tutorials
A Raspberry Pi VAX cluster
Following on from a previous post in which he showed how the Pi can be used to emulate a mainframe, Andrew Back has now moved on to describing how to turn a couple of Pis into a VAX cluster. He…
Raspberry Pi arcade game emulator in an Atari Lynx
David Hooker has taken an old Atari Lynx handheld computer, ripped the guts out of it and fitted a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other electronic components (an amplifier for instance). He’s installed Shea Silverman’s PiPlay and used one of…
Naughty or Nice Raspberry Pi machine
Brian Corteil is a regular at both CamJam and Potton Pi & Pints. He often brings along his ‘naughty and nice’ machine which magically detects, when you insert your hand, whether you’ve been naughty or nice. Ideal for Christmas time –…
Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella
Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used. She’s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. All the…
Using the Raspberry Pi with Mathematica in schools
Adriana O’Brien has posted up a series of lessons that she has used at Kenwood Elementary School in Illinois to teach programming using Mathematica to interact with the Pi’s GPIO. Definitely worth a look if you want to use Mathematica! Read it…
Draw a snowflake with code on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a lovely tutorial using the Python Turtle library to draw snowflakes. It’s a great example of recursive programming and will certainly while away a couple of hours with the kids on a cold weekend…
Raspberry Pi Hamster Fitness Tracker
Jamie Bailey from Initial State wanted to find out how far his 9-year-old daughter’s hamster ran. He came up with a great way of measuring it using a laser (and who doesn’t love lasers!). Find out how they did it here.
Raytracing on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi isn’t exactly what you’d call a graphics processing workhorse. Craig Lindlay, however, has managed to turn it into a small raytracing platform that will generate images onto a 320×240 screen from Adafruit. He calls it the “Raytracing Minion”…
Interface a gyro and accelerometer with a Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It’s called the BerryIMU (which stands for Inertial Measurement Unit). He’s been writing a series of great articles to support the project.…