I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
Category: Health
Heart-rate monitor uses a Wemos, a small OLED display and MicroPython
This is one of my rare not-strictly-Raspberry-Pi blog posts. Although using a Wemos, because the programming is in Micro Python, it wouldn’t be difficult to convert to using, say, an MCP3008 chip to read the analog values and then GPIO…
Using a Raspberry Pi and the Amazon Alexa SDK to help tetraplegics
It’s always nice when you see an engineering project that attempts to really help people, and this is one of the best I’ve come across. A recent hackathon, hackABILITY, brought together teams to concentrate on providing solutions to disabled people. One…
Company happiness tracker uses a Raspberry Pi, LEDs and buttons
Katja Budnikov works for a company (shopping24) that has the occasional two-day hackfest where employees get to play around with new technology and come up with non-work related projects. (Sounds like fun!) For the current round of hacking, Katja’s team…
American school student creates rehabilitation aid from a soccer ball and a Raspberry Pi
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…
Track your weight with this set of scales that uses a Raspberry Pi and a Wii Balance Board
Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
Raspberry Pi-powered experiment workshops for Body Science Saturday – Braintree – 19th March
Andy Melder, who is one of the organisers of the splendid Southend Raspberry Jam, is running Raspberry Pi-powered drop-in sessions throughout the day this Saturday at Braintree District Museum on Manor Street in Braintree, Essex. Running from 10am-4pm, the workshops will feature…
Telehealth system going into pilot stage uses Raspberry Pi
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) which provides information, data and IT systems for health and social care organisations, including the NHS, is about to launch a telehealth pilot scheme which uses a Raspberry Pi to gather information…