Albert has taken inspiration from a tweet by Sway Grantham in which she wanted to create spider charts (radar charts) automatically. So, Albert worked out a CSV file format that worked, created a blank chart and wrote a script to read in the…
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New Enviro pHAT for the Raspberry Pi launched by Pimoroni
Teased in a video stream some weeks ago, the Enviro pHAT has now been launched by Pimoroni. It includes the following: BMP280 temperature/pressure sensor TCS3472 light and RGB colour sensor Two LEDs for illumination LSM303D accelerometer/magnetometer sensor ADS1015 4-channel analog…
Share your computing power with BOINC on the Raspberry Pi
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC) is a way for you to get involved on global research projects. You install a client and then the slack time of your particular machine is used in the networked task of…
International background radiation research project uses Raspberry Pi
A group of UC Berkeley students working with researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed devices that will measure and report levels of background radiation. Called DoseNet, the open-source project aims to get…
Cambridge start-up uses Raspberry Pi for low-cost water quality scanner
Waterscope, a Cambridge start-up company, has developed a low-cost, 3D-printed water quality scanner based around a Raspberry Pi and a microscope. Alex Patto, Richard Bowman, Nalin Patel and Tianheng Xhao met on iTeams, a programme started at Cambridge University which aims to help…
Control your terrarium with a Raspberry Pi and Energenie
A terrarium really is a beautiful thing. Tom Bennet has placed a temperature sensor inside his terrarium box and then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to it. The Pi controls an Energenie home automation switch to maintain the environment inside. Take…
Track your weight with this set of scales that uses a Raspberry Pi and a Wii Balance Board
Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
Cosmic ray detector for the Raspberry Pi from CERN
A team from CERN in Switzerland has been developing a Raspberry Pi-based cosmic ray detector. The system, called Cosmic Pi, will be a distributed project with each individual system on the internet contributing to the overall readings. The core of the…
3D-printed flight case for the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT / AstroPi
Les Pounder has been rummaging around in the CPC warehouse for components to populate a 3D-printed AstroPi flight case. So, far he’s found some cost effective buttons to poke out the top. The 3D-printed case came from RyanTeck. Ryan offers…
Giant running wheel for cats uses Raspberry Pi for measurements
http://i.imgur.com/Oh2YlGa.webm Jasper Ruben built his cats a ‘hamster wheel’ for exercise and just for general cat-happiness-quotient. He’s connected up some sensors to it and these feed data back to the Raspberry Pi which calculates speed and distance travelled. A gallery…