On 6th June, we held a Cambridge Raspberry Jam at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. One of our Show and Tell tables was manned by Carl Monk and Albert Hickey. Albert has created a game called ‘Flappy Bird’ using Python…
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Portable Raspberry Pi Kinect 3D scanner
Mario Lukas’ girlfriend is an archaeologist. Part of her job is to catalogue relics from digs and Mario deduced that what she could do with is a handheld, portable 3D scanner. So, he decided to build one using a Raspberry…
RyanTeck Raspberry Pi Debug Clip review
Pete Taylor got a Debug Clip from the recent Kickstarter campaign run by Ryan Walmsley. He’s now put it through it’s paces by using a Windows tablet to communicate with the Pi via serial. His review can be read here.
Using a Raspberry Pi 2 to make MIDI music
JosephEarnest has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input/output device. The software is written in Python and cython and is available here. He’s made…
Mini Raspberry Pi handheld computer
The Ruiz Brothers have published a new tutorial on the Adafruit website. This tutorial shows you how to create a handheld Raspberry Pi computer using a 3.5″ PiTFT screen, a mini wireless keyboard and a LIPO battery. It’s rather nifty and…
Arduino programming for the Raspberry Pi – RasPiO Duino launched for general sale
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV recently ran a very successful Kickstarter campaign for the RasPiO Duino – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. The Duino contains the same ATMEGA 328 chip that is on an Arduino and plugs directly onto the first 26 pins…
PiConfig – the network configuration tool for the Raspberry Pi
A little while ago, Mihaly Krich ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the PiConfig. It’s a little USB dongle that can be used to set-up the Raspberry Pi’s network settings from Windows or Mac. After you’ve set it up, you simply…
Barcode scanner and online shopping API fused together on the Raspberry Pi
Denis Papathanasiou has taken an off-the-shelf USB barcode scanner and plugged it into his Raspberry Pi. He’s then written some code to use barcode data stored at the Open Product Data (POD) project to tell the Pi what the product is and then…
Sci-Fi your desk with the Raspberry Pi
Frederick Vandenbosch is currently building a desk into which he will embed a Raspberry Pi. He’s basing his design on the console from Tron Legacy (see below). While I don’t expect it will be all-singing, all-dancing, he’s doing it in the…
3D mapping on the Raspberry Pi
Back in February, the Foundation published a blog post about Tangram ES which an open source map-rendering engine from Mapzen. Mapzen has now gone one further and developed an example app which displays a three-dimensional map and ties it into…