Instructables user Osprey22 has written a piece of Python which acts as a sequencer based on an imported MP3 file to drive sets of Christmas tree lights. He’s written the whole thing up as a tutorial, so head on over to the Instructables to find out how he did it. You can see a video of it in action below:
Issue 28 of The MagPi is out. This issue covers:
A blogger at PiecesOfPi.co.uk decided that he (or, indeed, she) wanted to build a GPIO board for themselves. So, they’ve taken a piece of stripboard, some LEDs and a few switches and done just that. He’s posted all the diagrams so you can replicate the board, although he hasn’t included much in the way of help with the software. Should be fairly easy to knock something up with Python or ScratchGPIO, though. Read all about it here.
Normally if you want to do a timelapse with the Pi camera, you just use the raspistill command with the -tl parameter. However, Richard (aka the Average Man) wanted to do it programmatically so he could update an LCD screen during the process. If you want to do this yourself, check out his tutorial here.
Linux User & Developer have published their interview online with Andrew Robinson, who created a bullet-time rig by chaining together 48 Raspberry Pis and camera modules. Read it here.
Nur has taken a Raspberry Pi, some sunglasses frames, a few LCD components and a mobile hotspot and created a Google Glass clone. There’s not much detail of the project over at Make but it’s interesting to note someone’s done this. Read the Make article here.
