Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It’s called the BerryIMU (which stands for Inertial Measurement Unit). He’s been writing a series of great articles to support the project. His latest article is all about using a gyro and accelerometer to get readings about attitude and movement. You can read the article here.
Average Man (Richard Saville) has just posted up a review of the Pi and Bash add-on board. He very much likes the board and has given it a very balanced review. Read the review here.
You can buy a Pi and Bash from The Pi Hut or from RyanTeck.
Frank Carver has just posted up a brilliant Pi Wars video – it’s the story of TractorBot, made by Ipswich Makerspace. They eventually won Best Robot Under £75 and were the champions of the Obstacle Course. (You can view an almost-full list of the results here, by the way). Head on over to Frank’s website or watch the video embedded below.
Thanks Frank for putting the video together and congratulations once again to the Ipswich Makerspace guys and girls.
Issue 29 of the fantastic MagPi magazine is now out. You can see from the screenshot above that it’s (jam-)packed with stuff so head on over to MagPi.com to download or view it.
Here’s an interesting Instructable. It’s a 3D-printed radio unit with a Pi inside that reads from a Google Sheet online to determine when it should play. It’s a lovely case, but I expect you can find something pre-fabricated if you don’t have a 3D printer. All the instructions & files, including those for the 3D printing are available over at Instructables.com. You can see a video of it in action below:
Rick Sellens has posted up some simple code to plot data returned from an Arduino using Python and the pyplot library. I’ve asked him to also post up the code from the Arduino so we can see both sides of the process. Read how to do it here.
