Earlier this year, PubNub posted about their LEGO future home which had a variety of sensors, LEDs and motors attached. They have now started to write tutorials based around the project so that you can build your very own, using…
Category: Environment
Marine ecology monitoring using the Raspberry Pi
A team from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a Passive Acoustic Monitoring device, is a sonic spectrometer which measures underwater audio signals and records them, thus allowing researchers…
Naturebytes Wildlife Camera kit – watch wildlife with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nicely thought-out Kickstarter which puts the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to good use to capture pictures of wildlife. The unit comes in a weatherproof case with holes in the front for the camera lens and a PIR…
Raspberry Pi clock and weather display
Kevin Uhlir has taken a Raspberry Pi and a large HDMI screen and then programmed the Pi to use the Weather Underground API to create a clock and weather monitor. The software will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux as long…
LifeBox – an ecosystem of LEDs with a Raspberry Pi
Ferran Fabregas flew over from Barcelona last weekend to attend the Southend Raspberry Jam. I was lucky enough to catch his talk on his project: the LifeBox. This is a cube approximately 35x35x35cm featuring an LED matrix panel on the front.…
Robot gardening workshop sponsored by Raspberry Pi Foundation
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…
Automated waste sorter uses a Raspberry Pi
Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
Land and water-based environment simulation with a Raspberry Pi controller
This is simply beautiful. Poopi and Piter have created a “paludarium” – an enclosed biodome in which environmental conditions are simulated – which contains both land-based and water-based lifeforms. The paludarium is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and 4 ATmega 168P chips…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…
Automated mushroom cultivation with a Raspberry Pi
Kyle Gabriel grows mushrooms (the non-hallucinogenic kind!) and wanted to control the environment in which they grow to achieve a better yield. He’s now using a Pi to monitor temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide concentration. When the Pi detects an…