The Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a couple of new resources, this time they’re focused on weather. In particular, these resources help you to use the data collected from all those Weather Station boards that they sent out and to…
Category: Environment
Spinach plants and Raspberry Pi used to detect bomb material
A team from MIT has published a paper in which they describe a bomb detection experiment conducted with spinach plants. The plants, which are sensitive to the presence of “nitro-aromatics” (key components of several bomb-making substances), have carbon-nanotube-based nanoparticles embedded in…
Virtual Forest experience powered by a Raspberry Pi
Koen Hufkens is a research associate at Harvard University and his research focuses on “understanding the relation between climate (change) and seasonal variability in vegetation growth”. He’s also a maker and software developer and he has brought all these interests together…
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Wearable blinky dress reacts to touches via a Raspberry Pi
Shaky snapchat vid of actual operation A video posted by Clodagh O’Mahony (@yodaomahony) on Aug 29, 2016 at 12:45pm PDT You know how much I love art projects? This is a good one! Thanks to Alex at the Foundation for…
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,…
Control and maintain your pool via a web browser using a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a massive project for you. Normally, pool automation systems cost somewhere in the region of $10k. So, an Instructables user decided to create his own using a Raspberry Pi. He hooked up all the inputs for the main swimming…
Raspberry Pi Birdbox in Ipswich
Keith from Ipswich decided to install a bird box on the gable end of his garden shed. Inside the bird box, he placed a camera module and an infra-red LED. He then fed the extra-long camera ribbon cable back to the…
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…