As usual with a new product launch, certain bloggers get early access to be able to publish their opinions and technical information. Matt Timmons-Brown is one of these. He has done a walk-round and put the Zero through it’s paces in…
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Create an aircraft RADAR with a Raspberry Pi and Pi Aware
Martin O’Hanlon has previously used Pi Aware to access publicly available data about aircraft positions. Now he has taken his work further by creating a RADAR system that displays aircraft positions relative to your GPS co-ordinates. It’s a great example of…
Astro Pi on the BBC’s One Show
Friday saw astronaut Tim Peake and Astro Pi competition winner Hannah Belshaw being interviewed on the BBC’s magazine programme The One Show. If you’re in the UK, you can watch the episode online via BBC iPlayer. Tim and Hannah talk…
Create an interactive pet with the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT
Carrie Anne Philbin has been very busy recently with her Raspberry Pi Foundation duties. Now she’s back in her guise as the creator of the Geek Gurl Diaries videos! Her new video tutorial takes you through from connecting up the SenseHAT…
Raspberry Pi used in new Greek Royal artworks
On 2nd November at Christie’s in London, five new artworks by Prince Nikolaos of Greece were unveiled. They are known as Soundwalls and feature a huge video display powered by a Raspberry Pi. The Pi also provides a soundtrack to the…
Reading analog signals with the RasPiO Duino and the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames has now finished his series of videos about the RasPiO Duino, the great little add-on board for the Pi that gives you an ATMega chip, breakouts and a prototyping area. The last video is all about reading analog…
Wearable guerilla video projection device made out of a Raspberry Pi
Artist R▲has created the VIDEOBLAST_R which is a wrist-mounted device which allows the wearer to project pre-prepared artistic imagery on any surface. Animation is triggered by a Wii nunchuck controller and the whole thing is mounted on a rollerblade armguard. An…
Big wide eyes with a Raspberry Pi compute module
The Interactive Architecture Lab is based in University College London and they have been working on producing a prosthetic suit called the Polymelia. It’s all about improving the human body through a series of prostheses… I think… it’s all a…
Raspberry Pi video player for children
Here’s a nice little project. Craig Hissett has taken a Raspberry Pi, a touchscreen, some batteries and some nice BIG buttons and created a video player for children. It all sits in a laser-cut wooden enclosure. Nice job, Craig. Take…
Lunar eclipse time-lapse with the Raspberry Pi
Norbert Heinz (HomoFaciens) took his Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a zoom lens and captured a time-lapse of the recent lunar eclipse. You can see the time-lapse and an explanation of his method in the video below: He has written…