Teacher Dan Aldred from Thirsk School has been telling Linux User and Developer all about his year 7 club’s winning entry into the Astro Pi competition. He covers everything from how the club was set-up, how they came up with their idea of tracking the…
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Developer seeks funding for remotely operated underwater vehicle powered by a Raspberry Pi
Sam Groome is an apprentice at an ROV manufacturer and a college student finishing his HND in electrical/electronic engineering. He has a dream: an underwater Raspberry Pi-powered remote controlled vehicle. The ROV is tethered to the surface via a cable and signals are…
Raspberry Pi captures footage of rocket launch in USA
The Portland State Aerospace Society launched a rocket 3 miles straight up on the 19th July from the Oregon desert. Eventually, at around Mach 1, the 3D printed housing cracked and the camera fell out, but the footage up to…
Marine ecology monitoring using the Raspberry Pi
A team from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a Passive Acoustic Monitoring device, is a sonic spectrometer which measures underwater audio signals and records them, thus allowing researchers…
Detecting sweaty astronauts with the Raspberry Pi’s Astro Pi board
Richard Hayler’s primary school Code Club has recently been selected as one of the winning entries in the Astro Pi competition. Their code is one of the projects that will actually run on the International Space Station! It uses the Astro…
Aurora Borealis alert! Raspberry Pi and NeoPixels work together
James Singleton from BlinkinLabs has written a nice script that accesses data from Lancaster University’s Aurora Watch and then, if an Aurora Borealis is happening, displays an Aurora-like light show on a BlinkyTape, which is a strip of NeoPixels with a USB…
Raspberry Pi in space – Astro Pi announces all the winners
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have posted some news about the Astro Pi competition. All the winners have now been selected and it is now clear whose code will be run on the International Space Station. There is a mix of private…
Raspberry Pi controlled fireworks
Sacramento-based Chris Osborn likes to control fireworks with electronics. This year, he decided to use the Raspberry Pi to trigger relays that would ignite the fireworks. In the end it didn’t work brilliantly well, but he’s blogged about it and…
Naturebytes Wildlife Camera kit – watch wildlife with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nicely thought-out Kickstarter which puts the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to good use to capture pictures of wildlife. The unit comes in a weatherproof case with holes in the front for the camera lens and a PIR…
Space-age information distribution with Outernet and the Raspberry Pi
Outernet is an interesting service that broadcasts a large amount of internet-mined content via an orbiting satellite. Anyone can receive it, providing they have the appropriate equipment, on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s some info on the information that is being broadcast…