Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the Pi via a Pi Face and the Pi then plays an Internet Meme video on a small screen embedded in the upper display panel. Read more about it here.
Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used. She’s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. All the instructions and code are available as a tutorial from The Royal Insitution website. You can see a video of Kate working on the project below:
Adriana O’Brien has posted up a series of lessons that she has used at Kenwood Elementary School in Illinois to teach programming using Mathematica to interact with the Pi’s GPIO. Definitely worth a look if you want to use Mathematica! Read it here.
Timm Murray from the Wisconsin-based Bodgery has set-up a webcam so that potential visitors can see who is about before they drop in. He’s blogged about it here.
Tom Sherlock from Wolfram Research has written an extensive guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about his work which uses a Pi camera module to take astronomical photographs while the Pi itself controls the position of the telescope using Mathematica. Read the post here.
Simon Walters has just announced the latest version of his ScratchGPIO software that runs on the Raspberry Pi and allows you to program the GPIO pins from within Scratch. According to his blog post, the following features have been introduced:
