Alex Ellis decided to grow some cress and he wanted a way of monitoring the growth. To do this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero, a Pi camera and a cheap plastic box to grow the cress in. The Pi…
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Automating a coral reef tank with a Raspberry Pi
Ranjib Dey loves his salt water aquarium which is home to a miniature, living, coral reef. It takes a lot of expertise and monitoring to keep this fragile ecosystem alive and to do it he has decided to bring in…
Connected, dreamy drawings using the Raspberry Pi and Bare Conductive’s PiCap
Swedish artist, Rebecka Tollens has collaborated with Playtronica to bring her “Connected Drawings” to life. As part of the Daydream / Darkness / Disgrace exhibition in Paris, Rebecka created drawings to represent her dreams. She then made them interactive by using Bare Conductive’s Touch Board and Pi…
Answer questions, record sound and print the wave with a Raspberry Pi
Bomani, Eunice, and Matt have created a project called Waves which allows you to see the spoken word in printed form. A set of colour-coded questions is posed and you are then invited to answer them whilst pressing a colour-coded button.…
Create a weather forecasting lamp using a Raspberry Pi Zero
“The Modern Inventor” has written a great Instructable which helps you to create your very own weather forecasting lamp called the Storm Glass. The lamp, which has been given the ability to simulate lightning, fog, rain and thunder using off-the-shelf…
Build your own Fartometer with a Raspberry Pi and a Wemos D1
Dr Lucy Rogers has taken inspiration from IBM’s IoT HQ and created an ambient air quality sensor that works using MQTT messages through the IBM Watson IoT Quickstart Platform. Readings of the air are taken using a Raspberry Pi Zero…
Weather forecasting cloud has a Raspberry Pi Zero W at its core
My apologies for the lack of updates recently. I had a bit of a health problem involving a medication imbalance and it meant I couldn’t concentrate on anything but the bare essentials. I’ve also been busy rehearsing for a new musical…
Building a heartbeat monitor with the Raspberry Pi
Daniel Fernandez has taken a Raspberry Pi, a Polar H7 heart sensor and a 3.5″ screen and created a heart monitoring system. The system allows you to wear the sensor, which sends readings to the Raspberry Pi which then graphs…
CamJam EduKit for the Raspberry Pi receives GPIO Zero / Python 3 worksheet update
Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that there are brand new versions of the CamJam EduKit 1 worksheets now available from the CamJam website. In addition to the classic RPi.GPIO versions being revised to feature 40-pin Pis and various small typographical…
Eurovision crown wearable uses Raspberry Pi Zero to show ratings and tweets
Tanya, from Sheffield maker company Pimoroni, wanted to celebrate the Eurovision Song Contest in style and decided to create a wearable. What she came up with was a Crown based on a headband, some cardboard and plenty of bits of…