I’ve previously covered Ben Nuttall’s new GPIO library, GPIO Zero, on this blog. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany and realised just how useful it can be. Since then, I’ve been meaning to start using it to redevelop…
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Solar power meets steampunk with this Raspberry Pi / Nixie tube mash-up
Paul Parry from Bad Dog Designs took a 1930s Vickers combined voltmeter and ammeter, refurbished it, added the Nixie tubes and then added a Raspberry Pi which translated the data coming in from his solar panels into something usable by the tubes.…
New LEGO-compatible case for the Raspberry Pi touch screen launched on Kickstarter
Tom Murray, who launched the LEGO-compatible SmartiPi case in October 2014, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a case for the official touch screen for the Raspberry Pi. The new case, which will be injection moulded, includes…
Word clock with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Nice to see projects being built with the Zero now. David Saul set himself a project over Christmas: a ‘word clock’. For this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero and a MAX7219 chip. A ‘word clock’ is a clock made up…
Track the next high tide with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. He has taken one of his prototyping boards (the ProtoPal) and the components contained in the RasPiO 7 segment display kit and created a…
RasPiO Duino LCD kit – review
Alex was kind enough to send me one of these kits but I’m free to say what I like. This kit is all about learning how to display data onto an LCD screen from analog temperature sensors. The basic kit…
Prototype your Raspberry Pi Zero projects with the ProtoZero
Richard Saville (aka AverageMan) previously ran Kickstarters for prototyping boards for the full-size Raspberry Pi. Now, he’s taken things smaller and created the ProtoZero. He is now running a Kickstarter to raise funds to produce it. The ProtoZero is a…
Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff Christmas giveaway
Hi everyone! It’s Christmas! Everyone likes to get something for Christmas, so I thought it would be nice to do a blog give-away. I’m doing this in the form of a questionnaire, so it’s easy to get responses through. What…
Raspberry Pi DOTs boards now available
The DOTs board, designed by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is now available to buy online. The board, which uses conductive paint in a dot-to-dot fashion, is supplied with a plugin for Minecraft Pi Edition which will draw the outline of…
Run a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery
Daniel Bull has written up some excellent instructions for wiring up and soldering an Adafruit PowerBoost LiPo charger onto a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a Zero for this initial hack but you should be able to use any Raspberry Pi (the lower-powered…