Mike: Here’s a guest post from my good friend Tim Richardson. He got hold of one of these screens early and was kind enough to write a review. All the photos (except the picture of the Pi, which is a…
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Kano launches new screen for the Raspberry Pi / @TeamKano
Love them or hate them, you cannot deny that Kano has done a lot for the popularity of the Raspberry Pi. With the idea that you can “build a computer yourself”, good marketing, attractive packaging and well-written, well-presented resources, they have…
Two-faced clock controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice little Instructable project to flex your robotics muscles. Anthony (who is really just a teddy bear – seriously!) has made a nice wall-clock with two hands that are powered by steppers which are controlled by this nice little…
Bathroom moisture extraction controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Dave Hunt’s bathroom didn’t have extractor fans fitted when the house was originally built. He decided to overkill the problem by having a Raspberry Pi control some new fans he fitted. He uses AM2302 humidity sensors to detect the moisture…
Controlling your Raspberry Pi robot
Brian Corteil, one of the competitors in this year’s Pi Wars competition, has done a great round-up of the remote control options available to you when you build a robot. He goes through each option and gives pros and cons…
LEDs that move and mirror your hand movements with a Leap Motion and a Raspberry Pi
Over at PubNub, they’ve been using Java to do some great things. This time, they’re using it to interact with a Leap Motion. Movements in the user’s hands are replicated with servos. Attached to the servos are some 8×8 LED…
Monitoring cricket scores with the Raspberry Pi
Rohit Gupta wanted to monitor cricket scores while he was working in his office. The trouble is almost all the sites he would use to do this were blocked by his company’s web traffic filter. So, he turned to the Raspberry Pi…
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi RPi.GPIO Quick Reference Ruler before time runs out!
I’ve just realised that the campaign I’ve been featuring on the blog for the last few weeks is almost at an end. The RasPiO GPIO Ruler is a great little reference guide to the RPi.GPIO Python library that (almost) everyone uses to interact…
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a portable streaming camera
Anderson Silva wanted to have a go at playing around with a touchscreen and a Pi camera. So, he decided to create a fully portable, battery-powered set-up that would enable him to see the video stream from his camera over…
RPi.GPIO Python library for the Raspberry Pi undergoes a change
Alex Eames has been looking at recent updates to the Python library everybody uses, RPi.GPIO, and has noticed something. The old variable RPI_REVISION has been deprecated (replaced) by something more useful: RPI_INFO. This new variable outputs a Python dictionary detailing…