Happy Back to the Future Day! In honour of this momentous occasion, when we can expect Marty McFly to travel from the past and appear somewhere above Hill Valley, California, I’ve decided to re-post this excellent project from Carl Monk. In his extensive…
Category: Science
Raspberry Pi in space – the development of a CubeSat with the Compute Module
Scientists and students at the Surrey Space Centre in the University of Surrey are currently developing a processing core for a CubeSat using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Physical space is very limited inside these space-going devices, so undergraduate Oliver…
Weather station using the Raspberry Pi touchscreen and Kivy
Alan Pullen is currently working on a weather station project which will bring together a Pi with an Arduino to take readings and display them onto a Raspberry Pi touchscreen. He wants to measure temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall and, very…
Decryption machine reproduction with a Raspberry Pi (Turing-Welchman)
The Turing-Welchman Bombe was a decryption machine used in World War II to decipher Enigma-encoded German messages. There is a real one running at Bletchley Park: New Zealander Simon Jensen visited Bletchley and decided that he wanted to build a replica…
Big wide eyes with a Raspberry Pi compute module
The Interactive Architecture Lab is based in University College London and they have been working on producing a prosthetic suit called the Polymelia. It’s all about improving the human body through a series of prostheses… I think… it’s all a…
Make your own weather station with some sensors and a Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Martian adventures for the Raspberry Pi
Exploring Mars is likely to be the most exciting scientific project of this century. Whenever it happens, it will capture the imagination of adults and children alike. There are just a few hurdles to overcome first! Like getting there… One of the issues…
SenseHAT launched by the @Raspberry_Pi Foundation – an extensive first look
This morning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the immediate availability of the SenseHAT. The SenseHAT is the guts of the Astro Pi and has an inherent space-aged coolness built in. The board you hold in your hands is the same hardware that is…
Flight safety testing details for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi
Since March, the Astro Pi package, that will go onto the International Space Station, has been undergoing a series of rigorous tests to demonstrate it’s space-worthiness. Dave Honess has blogged over at the Foundation about exactly what it’s been through…
Analysing traffic patterns with the Raspberry Pi
Over at MathWorks’ MakerZone, Eric Wetjen has written a tutorial/article in which he shows a way of using a webcam to count cars on a highway. The webcam captures images and then they use Simulink to analyse the images. The data is then sent…