Ferran Fabregas flew over from Barcelona last weekend to attend the Southend Raspberry Jam. I was lucky enough to catch his talk on his project: the LifeBox. This is a cube approximately 35x35x35cm featuring an LED matrix panel on the front.…
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Eye-controlled wheelchair uses Raspberry Pi 2
Myrijam Stoetzer (14) and Paul Foltin (15) from Duisburg, Germany wanted to create a system whereby a wheelchair could be controlled by tracking eye movements. The eye tracker is made from a webcam mounted in the frames of some safety glasses. They use…
Robot gardening workshop sponsored by Raspberry Pi Foundation
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…
Automated waste sorter uses a Raspberry Pi
Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
Monitor pot-holes with a Raspberry Pi
George Mallingbury has taken a GPS serial device and an XLoBorg board (from PiBorg – it’s got an accelerometer on it) and attached them to his Pi. He’s then used some Python and SQL commands to record the jolts, jiggles…
AstroPi primary school winners announced
Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are: Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used…
Fast molecular data processing with the Raspberry Pi
I can’t pretend that I know exactly what Matt Williams is talking about in his article, but suffice to say he’s doing something very impressive with his Pi. I’ll let him explain: Substructure substance matching is, in many ways, a…
Land and water-based environment simulation with a Raspberry Pi controller
This is simply beautiful. Poopi and Piter have created a “paludarium” – an enclosed biodome in which environmental conditions are simulated – which contains both land-based and water-based lifeforms. The paludarium is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and 4 ATmega 168P chips…
Hook a Maplin weather station up to a Raspberry Pi
Dave Akerman has taken a Maplin weather station and hooked it up to his Raspberry Pi. He used a piece of software with the oh-so-catchy name of “pywws” to read in the data from USB and then uploaded his data to…
Build your own weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Taking his inspiration from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station, Kevin Kingsbury has taken a lot of components and built his own. The station includes a wind speed gauge, a wind direction finder, temperature, humidity, pressure and light sensors and a…