Mehzeb Chowdhury, a PhD researcher in forensic science and criminal investigations at the UK’s Durham University has been looking into the ways juries view crime scenes. Ordinarily, they rely on a mixture of sketches and photographs. Recent ideas at making…
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Build your own solar-powered weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Brian Masney has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and hooked up a load of sensors to create a weather station. He has fixed solar panels to the top for power and the sensors include ones for wind speed and direction, rain, temperature,…
Ophthalmoscope powered by Raspberry Pi scans for retinal diseases
Over at Hackaday.io, Ebin Philip has written an account of his ophthalmoscope (eye retina scanner) powered by a Raspberry Pi and a camera module. The device, which costs about $400 all-in, has been designed to scan the target eye for Diabetic Retinopathy which…
Astro Pi scientific results data now available
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that the scientific results of the Astro Pi space mission are now available! Head over to astro-pi.org to take a look. Head over to the Raspberry Pi blog to read more about Astro Pi.
Underwater ROV drone has a Raspberry Pi 3 on-board
You wait ages for an ROV powered by a Raspberry Pi and then two come along at once. Following on from Blue Robotics ROV the other day, the Foundation has blogged about OpenROV and their new Trident platform which has a Raspberry…
Cross curriculum whole-school activity day featuring the Raspberry PI
Eastlea Community School, located in the London Borough of Newham, recently ran a whole-school activity day which featured a variety of computers and micro-controllers, including the Raspberry Pi. Clive Beale from the Raspberry Pi Foundation was invited along and you…
Affordable ROV solution uses Raspberry Pi in advanced electronics package
California-based Blue Robotics has developed an affordable ROV solution using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi is used in their advanced electronics package for extra computing power and to stream 1080p video up the tether. You can read a lot more…
Get closer to science with this Raspberry Pi-controlled microscope
Andre Maia Chagas and his team, comprised of LL Prieto Godino, A Arrenberg and T Baden, have developed a Raspberry Pi-controlled microscope called FlyPi and entered it into the Hackaday Prize competition. Here’s what Andre has to say about the project: Our plan with this…
Raspberry Pi Compute Module-powered CubeSat mock-up used in classrooms
NASA has taken the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, developed their own host board, added a few other components, and created the Pi-Sat (the innards of which are displayed in the picture above). The Pi-Sat is being used in classrooms to…
Earthquake notifications with a Raspberry Pi
Russell Grokett has taken a Raspberry Pi and fed in data from the USGS (United States Geological Survey). He has then put a box around the Pi and added an LCD screen and some motors. When an earthquake is detected, the LCD…