Bristol Braille Technology is working on a more affordable replacement for traditional Braille reading machines. Under the hood is a Raspberry Pi running C and Python, controlling off-the-shelf motors and plastic gears to create the Braille text. Traditionally, Braille machines can…
Category: Science
Explore an AstroPi winning entry with the Raspberry Pi website
Hannah Belshaw from Cumnor House Girls School recently won the chance to have her AstroPi project run on the International Space Station. The project records data from the AstroPi’s SenseHAT and then visualises that data inside the world of Minecraft. Martin O’Hanlon,…
Aeroponics system controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Sony Arouje and his wife grow plants and crops using aeroponics. They use a Raspberry Pi to automatically control the system’s various pumps and mechanisms and also to read button presses to trigger the system manually. Read more about the system…
Raspberry Pi-powered experiment workshops for Body Science Saturday – Braintree – 19th March
Andy Melder, who is one of the organisers of the splendid Southend Raspberry Jam, is running Raspberry Pi-powered drop-in sessions throughout the day this Saturday at Braintree District Museum on Manor Street in Braintree, Essex. Running from 10am-4pm, the workshops will feature…
Telehealth system going into pilot stage uses Raspberry Pi
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) which provides information, data and IT systems for health and social care organisations, including the NHS, is about to launch a telehealth pilot scheme which uses a Raspberry Pi to gather information…
Raspberry Pi Foundation resource for science lessons with the SenseHAT
The Foundation has written and published a wonderful resource that uses the SenseHAT and camera module to carry out scientific experiments. These experiments are an ideal cross-curriculum resource for schools that want to introduce computing into science lessons (or vice…
Sweaty Astronauts – the Raspberry Pi AstroPi data comes back to Earth
Richard Hayler and his children spoke at the Big Birthday Weekend about their AstroPi project – how it was developed and the story of how their code ended up in Space! Their experiment, which uses the SenseHAT’s built-in humidity sensor to…
Indian students’ air pollution network uses Raspberry Pi to bring it all together
Students at the National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India, are using a Raspberry Pi to bring together air quality readings and make them available on the internet. The students (Richie John, Shishir Sheshadri and Aparna Velampudi, who are studying Electronics…
Raspberry Pi releases 3D printing files for the Astro Pi flight case
Apologies for getting to this late – Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend jobs have been stacking up, so priorities… Raspberry Pi has released the STL files and a tutorial that will allow you to 3D-print your own version of the…
Track the next high tide with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. He has taken one of his prototyping boards (the ProtoPal) and the components contained in the RasPiO 7 segment display kit and created a…