Over on the Element 14 community, Spencer (spannerspencer) has documented his build of a retro gaming table. The original table is one of those square Lack coffee tables from IKEA (the ones everybody has got, it seems) and he has added the…
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CamJam EduKit 1 joins Raspberry Pi learning resources
Pardon me while I get a little excited! 🙂 Ben Nuttall ran a GPIO Zero workshop at the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend. In the workshop, he used components from CamJam EduKit 1 (a cheap electronics components kit) to teach the basics…
Use a Raspberry Pi Zero to feed pictures to a digital picture frame
Francesco Vannini has written a tutorial, based on work by Andrew Mulholland, to allow you to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as a mass storage device which can be read as a source by a digital picture frame. Read it…
Build yourself a portable power source for the Raspberry Pi
There are a couple of pre-built solutions for powering the Raspberry Pi on a portable basis. Some are actually ‘out there’, some are… a bit delayed, we’ll say. Instructables user DylanD581 has written a great tutorial which uses an Adafruit HAT…
Create an open wifi network sniffer with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice little tutorial from Dexter Industries. In it, they use a Raspberry Pi, their GrovePi add-on board, an LCD screen and a buzzer to create a system that will alert you when an open wifi network is found. Please…
Official Raspberry Pi Touchscreen – case options
By now, everyone knows about the Official Raspberry Pi 7″ touchscreen. Not everyone, however, knows about the various case options that are available. So, I thought (seeing as I bought a new one the other day) that I would take you through…
New Kickstarter seeks to bring to life a Raspberry Pi powered word clock
David Saul, who has previously run two successful Kickstarters, has just launched his latest crowdfunding campaign. This one is to raise funds to develop and supply a word clock with a customised PCB. The kit is designed to work with…
Program a CodeBug from a Raspberry Pi with Python
The MagPi has just published one of it’s articles online. This one covers programming the CodeBug micro-controller from a Raspberry Pi using a Python 3 library. Read it here.
Build a Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB hub
Adding USB ports to the Raspberry Pi Zero seems to be a common occurrence nowadays, so I’ve not covered many of them on the blog. However, here’s a rather novel idea: taking a USB hub and fitting a Zero into it.…
Pimoroni Flotilla unboxing – Raspberry Pi treasure chest of bits!
Unboxing videos… you either love them or you hate them. I’m somewhat ambivalent – if they’re good and to the point, great. Fortunately, the video above by Keith Downling is one of these. It’s an unboxing of Pimoroni’s Flotilla Mega Treasure…