A 15 year old schoolboy won the Institute of Physics prize at the recent Big Bang Fair by using a Raspberry Pi to analyse sensor readings and prove part of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Pratap Singh, from The Perse School…
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Robotic otter used for emotional therapy has Raspberry Pi as a heart
Students on an MIT Product Engineering Processes course in 2013 decided to build a product to help patients suffering from anxiety and depression as a result of dementia. It’s a cute baby otter called Ollie who responds to touches from the…
Flash flood predictions with Raspberry Pi weather stations
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have teamed up with other international partners to develop 3D-printed weather stations that will help to predict flash floods in underdeveloped countries, and they use the…
Raspberry Pis used to track bees at Kew Gardens
This one is guaranteed to get my buzzing phobia going! A Newcastle-based engineer has developed a system to track the flight paths and behaviour of bees at London’s Kew Gardens. A pack consisting of a tiny RFID tag and an…
DIY oscilloscope uses a Raspberry Pi and LEGO!
Steve Schuler wanted to build an oscilloscope. He used LEGO, an Erector set, a LittleBits motor and a Raspberry Pi which generates the PWM necessary to drive the motor. The motor is hooked up to a spinning mirror that sweeps the laser…
Microscopy with the Raspberry Pi
The leader of the Purbeck STEM club took an Intel QX3 microscope toy and retro fitted it with a Raspberry Pi camera module. This required removing the lens from the module and then attaching it to the eye-piece of the QX3.…
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…
ISS tracker with a Raspberry Pi and Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk’s really done a great job on this. Here’s an ISS tracker using a Raspberry Pi and the 8×8 Neopixel matrix of a Unicorn HAT. The Pi reads in the current co-ordinates and then plots the position on the Unicorn which has…
Raspberry Pi space competition AstroPi continues to develop
Dave Honess of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has written an excellent (and lengthy) update to the AstroPi project. AstroPi, for those of you who don’t already know, is aiming to send two Raspberry Pis up into orbit with astronaut Tim…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…