Here’s a nice post I discovered to get your money-spending fingers twitching. It’s a guide to 50 sensors and small peripherals that you can get that will work with the Raspberry Pi. Take a look here.
Category: Sensors
New resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation help you to drill into Weather Station data
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a couple of new resources, this time they’re focused on weather. In particular, these resources help you to use the data collected from all those Weather Station boards that they sent out and to…
Mexican bacteriological experiment produces biology-driven music via a Raspberry Pi
A Mexican team of Paloma López, Leslie García, and Emmanuel Anguiano (together, they are known as Interspecifics) have created a nature-driven musical instrument. Micro-ritmos is an art installation in which ‘music’ is generated by patterns formed by bacterial cells. The material…
American school student creates rehabilitation aid from a soccer ball and a Raspberry Pi
Thanks to Alex over at Raspberry Pi for finding this one! US-based eighth-grade student Amelia Day wanted to fuse her love of soccer (I know, I know, ‘football’) and her engineering skills into a project for school. So, she took…
New crowdfunding campaign for a Raspberry Pi-powered, hobbyists’ alarm system
Zach and Jake are two 16-year olds who are starting up a company called MakeTronix. To launch their company, they are running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds to produce the MakeTronix Alarm. It is a hobbyists’ alarm system featuring a…
New Kickstarter seeks to bring an easy Internet of Things to the Raspberry Pi
SixFab (and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The ‘shields’ are as follows: 4G/LTE 3G GSM/GPRS GPS XBee They are compatible with all models of Raspberry…
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap proves to be a versatile Raspberry Pi add-on
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs into the GPIO pins. It provides the following features: 12 conductive crocodile clip-compatible connection points High quality audio output via a 3.5mm jack A user-programmable RGB LED…
New Zealand student develops plane tracking system using QR codes and a Raspberry Pi
Inspired by the 2014 disappearance of flight MH370, New Zealand year 8 student Benjamin Mueggenburg has developed what he calls a Visual Plane Locating System. It is designed to overcome some of the problems with the existing system of tracking planes, namely…
Plot SenseHAT pressure data onto a graph using a Raspberry Pi
There’s an air pressure sensor on the SenseHAT which you can access via Python. A coder over at BlogMyWiki has used taken these readings and then used the matplotlib library to create a graph of the results. It’s a nice, clear example…
New crowdfunding campaign for a Raspberry Pi add-on – the RabbitMax Flex
Leon Anavi has just launched his first crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. He wants to fund the RabbitMax Flex which is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. The main board is HAT-sized and hosts the following: a relay a buzzer a button…