Cory Guynn has built an entire city out of LEGO and then connected up various sensors and motors to it to sense and control aspects of the city. He has then used node.js and NodeRED on a Raspberry Pi to…
Category: Sensors
Hamsters: Lazy or marathon-runners? Let your Raspberry Pi work that out
Last year, Los Angeles-based software engineer Michelle Leonhart brought two Roborovski hamster puppies into her home. Since then, she read on the internet that the average Roborovski hamster runs four marathons every night. She decided to put that to the test. Enter the Raspberry…
Raspberry Pi in space – the development of a CubeSat with the Compute Module
Scientists and students at the Surrey Space Centre in the University of Surrey are currently developing a processing core for a CubeSat using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Physical space is very limited inside these space-going devices, so undergraduate Oliver…
GPIO Zero test drive – throwing light onto the new library for the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has been putting GPIO Zero through it’s paces by creating an automatic security light which senses a) when it’s dark and b) when movement is detected and then triggers a light to come on. He’s used a…
Weather station using the Raspberry Pi touchscreen and Kivy
Alan Pullen is currently working on a weather station project which will bring together a Pi with an Arduino to take readings and display them onto a Raspberry Pi touchscreen. He wants to measure temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall and, very…
Raspberry Pi-controlled air pollution art project erected in Chelmsford
Victoria Button has just seen the completion of the installation of her art project at a shopping centre in Chelmsford. The project, which is at the High Chelmer shopping centre, seeks to highlight the issue of air pollution in our environment and…
Using a hall-effect sensor with the Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins wanted to detect a magnet on his 3D printer. To do this, he has used a hall-effect sensor module and some simple Python script on the Raspberry Pi. If you want to experiment with this nice little, cheap…
Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device
Charles Gantt has been blogging about his latest project, the Foginator 2000, over at Element 14. His latest instalment deals with taking readings from the SenseHAT and then sending them to the cloud via a service called Initial State. He’s…
Matt Richardson talks AstroPi, SenseHAT and Raspberry Pis
Here’s a quick video from Matt Richardson, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s ‘man in the States’. In it he talks about AstroPi, the SenseHAT and sending them up into space. It’s all in aid of getting kids interested in coding. He…
Controlling air conditioning using a Raspberry Pi and a Microsoft Band
As part of the IoT Zone over at Dzone.com, Joost van Schaik has written up his ‘air conditioning’ project which uses the Microsoft Windows 10 Core IoT operating system to read the temperature in a room and then activate a fan if…