Richard Hayler and his sons have been at the LEGO again. This time, they’ve created a LEGO chicken which lays real eggs by using motors to manipulate an egg out of the tail end. Read all about it here.
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Raspberry Pi NFC Minecraft blocks
Tony Dicola has written a great tutorial over on the Adafruit site in which he uses an NFC reader and tags together with a Raspberry Pi running Minecraft. The scripts he has written allows you to program different NFC tags…
BerryIMU sensor for Raspberry Pi gets Python library
A little while ago, I backed a Kickstarter campaign to fund the development of the BerryIMU. It’s a (very) small board that gives you access to a gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, pressure/altitude sensor and temperature sensor through the I2C protocol. Mark…
Control the Unicorn HAT with the Skywriter HAT on the Raspberry Pi
I’ve been playing around with a recently-purchased Unicorn HAT and I was just wondering if it was possible to do this! Lo-and-behold this blog post came up in a general search for Unicorn HAT stuff. Sandy MacDonald has used a…
Review of the GrovePi+ starter kit for Raspberry Pi
SmittyTone has taken a look at Dexter Industries’ $90 GrovePi+ starter kit. This is an easy way to get into reading sensors on the Pi, possibly too easy as Smitty points out. Read the review here.
Fun soldering practice with A Kit A Month
Generally, if you’ve learned how to solder then you love to solder! It’s a nice skill to have but you have to keep doing it to keep that skill fresh, I reckon. Andrew Gale, who did the brilliant GPIO Christmas…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…
The power of Arduino brought to the Raspberry Pi by RasPiO Duino
Back in May 2014, I was privileged to get hold of a beta version of the RasPiO Duino. It’s a GPIO plug-in accessory that has an onboard ATMega chip that allows you to bring the additional power of an Arduino to the Raspberry…
Using the MeArm with the Raspberry Pi
Carl Monk has blogged about his experience building and using the MeArm from Phenoptix. The MeArm is a kit made from plastic which, when assembled, gives you a robotic arm controlled using servos. Carl has developed a web interface using the Flash…
Seven segment Raspberry Pi Ping-Pong
JCR Matos has created a circuit layout in Fritzing for a ping-pong game that you can reproduce for a bit of fun with your Pi. You need several components, including driver chips for the seven-segment displays. He’s included all the…