James Singleton from BlinkinLabs has written a nice script that accesses data from Lancaster University’s Aurora Watch and then, if an Aurora Borealis is happening, displays an Aurora-like light show on a BlinkyTape, which is a strip of NeoPixels with a USB…
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GPIO reference ruler for the Raspberry Pi – new Kickstarter from RasPi.TV
Like the look of that and want one already? Head over to Kickstarter! Do you find yourself constantly forgetting how to set-up the RPi.GPIO Python library? I know I do: trying to remember the correct way of doing things has…
Monitor the status of the London Underground with a Raspberry Pi and Neopixels
Ismail Uddin over at ScienceExposure.com has done a lovely tutorial, with accompanying code, that mines the London Underground API for tube line status information and then changes a Neopixel ring to give you an idea of how well everything is running. Read…
Remote twerking robot using a Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred, who created the mighty Pi Glove has used an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board to pick up the infrared signals for his (pretty darned cool) robot and then used the Pi to re-transmit the signals according to his program or web…
Raspberry Pi internet monitor boasts a biiiiiiig light tower
Instructables user talk2bruce has created a truly great tutorial. In it, he shows you how to build a highly visible internet monitor. The Raspberry Pi is used to ping a site on the internet and then, based on the response, switches the…
RasPi.TV does something different with mixed Mailbag video
Raspberry Pi vlogger and blogger Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has decided to try out something different. He’s taken 6 products that he’s been sent fairly recently and done a quick ‘mailbag’ video of them. This lets us, as viewers, see…
Social network monitor with Pygame on the Raspberry Pi
Richard “Average Man” Saville has built on Spencer Organ’s work on his PiTFT Internet Radio to create a “social network monitor”. He uses web-page scraping to get the data he needs (such as number of followers on Twitter, number of ‘likes’ on…
Troubleshooting Raspberry Pi HDMI/VGA adapters
Using VGA monitors with the Raspberry Pi requires you to plug an adapter into the HDMI port. Sometimes, there are issues with screen resolution. Sometimes, there are issues with absolutely nothing appearing on the screen. To help with some of these…
Naturebytes Wildlife Camera kit – watch wildlife with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nicely thought-out Kickstarter which puts the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to good use to capture pictures of wildlife. The unit comes in a weatherproof case with holes in the front for the camera lens and a PIR…
Official wifi adapter and new official case launched for the Raspberry Pi
I was just browsing around this morning when I discovered that the official Raspberry Pi wifi adapter and the official Raspberry Pi case have both been launched! The case The official case, which was launched in beta form at the Big…