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…
Category: Sensors
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…
Solar eclipse captured by multiple Raspberry Pis
The Pi really came into it’s own as a piece of scientific equipment last Friday during the solar eclipse. Multiple people set up webcams to capture the event, perhaps the best one was at the National STEM Centre in York… which…
Performance testing the Raspberry Pi 2 as an Internet of Things device
Henryk Konsek and Arek Jurasz wanted to see how fast the Raspberry Pi 2 was when it acted as part of the toolchain of an Internet of Things set-up using Camel and MQTT messages. I’ll let them explain: We decided to create…
Tech specs for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi HAT released
Dave Honess has posted the technical specs of the Astro Pi HAT which is due to go up to the International Space Station. The Astro Pi project, which invites schools to suggest experiments to be conducted in orbit, will send two Raspberry…
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.
Automated mushroom cultivation with a Raspberry Pi
Kyle Gabriel grows mushrooms (the non-hallucinogenic kind!) and wanted to control the environment in which they grow to achieve a better yield. He’s now using a Pi to monitor temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide concentration. When the Pi detects an…
Vibration sensors tell a story using a Raspberry Pi
Artist Catodo has created an art installation which uses vibration sensors to drive sound samples from a Raspberry Pi. Here’s what he has to say about it: We created a geometric structure using ribbons of red cotton and we applied…
Launched today: Flotilla from Pimoroni – easy hacking for the Raspberry Pi
It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
Mobile Raspberry Pi GPS streamer
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written a tutorial that takes you through the process of using Adafruit’s Ultimate GPS Breakout Board to take readings and then stream them to Initial State’s server using their API to get a…