Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully…
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Preview of the PiGlow board for the #RaspberryPi
A few days ago, I featured Pimoroni’s PiGlow as a product to watch out for. This little £9 board gives you 18 independently-controlled LEDs and can fit inside a Pibow case. Pre-launch boards have now been sent out and Gordon Henderson (of…
Upcoming project features 15-foot high brain sculpture lit by a #RaspberryPi
Rebecca Linke has blogged about a project called Mens Amplio which is, essentially, a 15-foot tall sculpture of a stylised human brain lit using LEDs. An ECG headset reads the user’s mind and then a Raspberry Pi is used to…
4-legged semi-transforming robot with the #RaspberryPi
Here’s a great robot made using a Raspberry Pi as it’s brain. No details on how it was done, but I’m hoping to find out some more. In the meantime, take a look at the video:
Watterott Display on #RaspberryPi
Lallafa has found a way to use a relatively cheap TFT display on his Raspberry Pi. He’s even found a way to compile his driver into the kernel so you can use it as a boot screen. He claims…
Another sunset timelapse with the #RaspberryPi
Craig over at Chicago Electronic Distributors has attached his Raspberry Pi to a tree in order to capture a timelapse of sunset over a part of Lake Michigan. The results are beautiful. Read about the rig here
Boost the current going to the #RaspberryPi HDMI port
Cosimo Orlando worked out that the HDMI port doesn’t always provide enough power for display devices. This is especially prevalent when using an HDMI-VGA adaptor. So, he’s come up with a way to feed a full 5V from the micro-USB…
Quick time-lapse of sunset from a #RaspberryPi camera
Ben Nuttall has created this really gorgeous time-lapse of sunset over the new Co-op building in Manchester. Photos were taken with the Raspberry Pi camera module, then strung together into the video.
#RaspberryPi dashcam project
Dream Green House is currently creating a page to document a dashboard camera using the Raspberry Pi and the camera module. Read more here
#RaspberryPi vs the BeagleBone Black video
YouTube blogger Matt, aka TheRaspberryPiGuy, has done a great comparison of the BeagleBone Black and the Raspberry Pi. It’s very well balanced and impartial. He covers all the pros and cons of both devices.