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.…
Category: Nature
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…
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 controlled chicken door
Eric Escobar has created a door for his chicken coop which automatically locks and unlocks depending on how he programs it. You can read slightly more over at Hackaday or watch the video of it in action above. He’s posted…
Hook a Maplin weather station up to a Raspberry Pi
Dave Akerman has taken a Maplin weather station and hooked it up to his Raspberry Pi. He used a piece of software with the oh-so-catchy name of “pywws” to read in the data from USB and then uploaded his data to…
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…
Tennessee Aquarium’s electric eel uses a Raspberry Pi to tweet
Never thought I’d ever write that sentence! The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga (which is just an awesome place – I visited a couple of years ago) have an electric eel called Miguel Wattson. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, some Python programming and…