“Piper” was developed by Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Alex Stokes, and Shree Bose and it uses a modified version of Minecraft running on Raspberry Pi to walk players through creating circuits and interacting with them. It’s currently under development and beta test with schools and museum visitor groups. You can see a picture of the kit above and you can read more about it by reading this interview with the creators over at Make.
Mike Haldas has written an excellent tutorial in which he builds a simple circuit with a push button and a couple of LEDs to trigger the camera module to take a photograph. The photograph is then auto-uploaded to Twitter. Read more here.
Do you have a need to show a looped video? Perhaps for a kiosk or foyer display? Well, RPiLooper might be the solution. It’s a pre-configured SD image that you add your video to. You can read more over on their website where they’ve just updated their available images with the Model B+ firmware.
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the BerryIMU. One of the three sensors on the board is a magnetometer, with which you can create a digital compass. Here’s how to do it in C.
The makers of FUZE, the hard-wearing, all-in-one Raspberry Pi computer, have just launched a special edition. Called the T2-SE, this has everything their normal T2 has, including a breakout board that gives you not only normal, digital input/output but analogue input as well. The cool thing they’ve done is to take a leaf out of the BBC Micro book and given it a new cream skin with red function keys. It now looks very similar to the BBC and reminds us all of what a great design that was. You can get hold of your own FUZE by heading over to their shop.
I like the look of this one and, if I had the money, this would be the model I’d go for, just for a bit of retro!
Spencer, Mr UK Tech Reviews, has put together a video of the Covent Garden Raspberry Jam which was held on 29th November at Dragon Hall. It looks like a great venue and really well organised, so congratulations to Frank Thomas-Hockey who organised it! See the video below:
