Over on the pi-top blog, Cat Lamin has just announced the pi-top Champions scheme in which Raspberry Pi community members have been selected to spread a little Pi about. Myself and Tim Richardson (we run the Cambridge Raspberry Jam together, in case…
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Keeping track of vinyl records with a Raspberry Pi and lots of blinkies
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have just blogged this so I thought I’d share it with you. Mike Smith has a lot of vinyl records and he has trouble keeping track of where they all are located on his shelves. So, he took…
New Kickstarter – RGB LED Christmas decoration for the Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and CodeBug
Andrew Gale previously ran a Kickstarter for a Christmas decoration powered by the Raspberry Pi. He has now re-spun his idea and has created a decoration using RGB LEDs. It plugs directly into the GPIO pins of the Pi. He has…
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
Building a Raspberry Pi-powered Pokemon Pokedex
Philip Organ, a 12-year old, year 7 student from Birmingham. He has recently been captured by the Pokemon Go craze and wanted to bring a bit of Raspberry Pi know-how to the game. So, he took a Pi, added a…
Cheap as chips: the Raspberry Pi Zero in a botched-together games console
Just saw this over at The MagPi, so thought I’d share. Joe Foulkes wanted to create an as cheap-as-possible gaming console. So, he took an old Samsung Galaxy box, a Pi Zero, some prototyping board and some other components and…
Pi-Top CEED Raspberry Pi platform available at lower price from CPC
CPC have just got in stock of the Pi-Top CEED, the all-in-one Pi and screen platform. For a limited time, they are selling the CEED for £89+VAT, which is £10 cheaper than normal. It’s a great deal, so if you’re in…
Using a NexDock with the Raspberry Pi
Albert Hickey has been working with the NexDock laptop docking station and the Raspberry Pi. He has now written up his findings, including the best configuration he’s found to use them together. Read it here. Sounds like a really good…
A make-it-yourself touch-capacitive kit for the Raspberry Pi from PiCymru
Doug Gore and the PiCymru team have developed a new kit that turns common objects into touch capacitive devices and then feeds the input signals back into the Raspberry Pi. It’s called PiFun and is inspired by MakeyMakey. The kit, which is available…
Build a compact GPS logger with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Here’s a good one from Instructables’ user Postron. He’s taken a Pi Zero, an Adafruit GPS module, an Adafruit LiPo power board and a LiPo then constructed a circuit with buttons and resistors on prototyping board to create a portable…