Recently, American GPS and fitness company Garmin suffered a cyber-security nightmare: a ransomware attack. This resulted in a three-day outage between 24th and 26th July 2020. The systems seem to be coming up again now and blogger Alex Eames decided…
Mike Phillips has spinal muscular atrophy, leaving him only with the control of one eyebrow. However, this hasn’t stopped him creating a list of things to do that would rival most able-bodied “bucket lists”. One of the items on the list…
The Volvo Ocean Race is held every three years and covers 45,000 nautical miles in 10 legs. Starting in Alicante, Spain and finishing in The Hague, Netherlands, it takes around nine months to complete with gaps in between legs –…
A Boston high school senior has helped to develop a system to monitor the risk of concussion in contact sports. Tiana Rossi, working alongside employees of Envision, used a Raspberry Pi and an accelerometer/gyroscope sensor to monitor the amount of force…
Richard Hayler likes to keep fit but his recent job change has meant that he unable to get to fitness sessions with an instructor. He now exercises in his back garden but wanted some way of having a visible and…
Thanks to Alex over at Raspberry Pi for finding this one! US-based eighth-grade student Amelia Day wanted to fuse her love of soccer (I know, I know, ‘football’) and her engineering skills into a project for school. So, she took…
On 29th May (this Sunday!), Lee Bowyer will run the Liverpool Marathon in aid of Addaction – a UK-based drug and alcohol treatment charity. Whilst on the run, he will wear the Raspberry Kiss. The Kiss is a small Raspberry…
Jeff Dahl is an Elementary School teacher in Michigan. His class has been using the Raspberry Pi and their main project has been to build robots. They’ve taken this a bit further and, by customising a GoPiGo kit from Dexter…
A bunch of amateur hackers from Gloucestershire have created a digital scoreboard for their cricket club using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as the master controller for an Arduino which controls the 7-segment displays. The interface is then accessed…
Rohit Gupta wanted to monitor cricket scores while he was working in his office. The trouble is almost all the sites he would use to do this were blocked by his company’s web traffic filter. So, he turned to the Raspberry Pi…
