A team from MIT has published a paper in which they describe a bomb detection experiment conducted with spinach plants. The plants, which are sensitive to the presence of “nitro-aromatics” (key components of several bomb-making substances), have carbon-nanotube-based nanoparticles embedded in…
Category: Sensors
Sort your Halloween candy using the Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Vision
Building on their earlier success with the Google Cloud Vision platform, the good people over at Dexter Industries have come up with a great way of sorting through chocolate bars for Halloween. Using a BrickPi and LEGO pieces, they’ve created an…
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
A make-it-yourself touch-capacitive kit for the Raspberry Pi from PiCymru
Doug Gore and the PiCymru team have developed a new kit that turns common objects into touch capacitive devices and then feeds the input signals back into the Raspberry Pi. It’s called PiFun and is inspired by MakeyMakey. The kit, which is available…
Traffic light linked to coffee and popcorn driven from Raspberry Pi
Arkatechture previously linked their coffee machine and popcorn maker to their Slack instant messages group. Now, they’ve taken an old traffic light, wired up another Pi with relays to control it, and then hooked that up to the two machines…
Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi
Nate Welch over at Arkatechture (bet that’s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they’ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
Wearable blinky dress reacts to touches via a Raspberry Pi
Shaky snapchat vid of actual operation A video posted by Clodagh O’Mahony (@yodaomahony) on Aug 29, 2016 at 12:45pm PDT You know how much I love art projects? This is a good one! Thanks to Alex at the Foundation for…
Raspberry Pi used to subvert San Francisco parking restrictions
In many San Francisco neighbourhoods, you are required to move your car every two hours to satisfy a parking restriction. However, in reality, you only need to move your car every two hours after it has been seen by an enforcement…