David Ferguson attended the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend (Pi Party) this year and recorded many of the talks taking place in the auditorium. He’s uploaded all the videos to YouTube, and listed a couple of others by Alan O’Donohue,…
As is traditional around this time of year, Matt Timmons-Brown has cut together a great video of the ‘best bits’ from the past year in celebration of the Raspberry Pi’s birthday. With the Pi passing the 12-million-sales milestone and showing no…
A team from Villanova University, Philadelphia, comprised of four faculty and more than twenty-five students, has developed a ‘bomb squad’ robot. The robot is intended to be used in developing countries to deal with explosive devices and uses a Raspberry Pi…
Piet Rullens Jr visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and brought back loads of video footage. He wanted to do something special with the footage so he designed a copy of the Wizarding World’s Daily Prophet to be framed. Behind the frame, he mounted…
Christian Cawley over at makeuseof.com has done a great tutorial on using avconv together with a Raspberry Pi camera module to stream to YouTube. Take a look here.
The guys over at YouTube channel Hacker House have used a Raspberry Pi as the brains behind a motion tracking, nerf gun turret. They’ve published a video which shows you how to build the turret and install the software. There…
SixFab are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a collection of IoT boards that allow your Raspberry Pi to connect to the GPRS, 3G and 4G networks (as well as a GPS board). They’ve recently added a Video Streamer Pack pledge level…
Jaret Burkett from Texas has taken an old television and placed it behind a fire grate. He’s then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to the TV, downloaded a fireplace video from YouTube and then looped it on the Pi. The…
We had a good Jam on Saturday at the Institute of Astronomy. Andy Batey has been hard at work editing the talk videos and uploading them and I’m pleased to say that he’s beaten his record for getting them onto…
Sometimes, you just want to be able to loop some videos with no muss and no fuss. Enter German artist Julius Schmiedel who has developed a downloadable OS image, called MP4Museum, based on Raspbian Lite and OMXPlayer which reads MP4 files…
