Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, was lucky enough to be sent a Freescale Xtrinsic Sensor Board by Farnell. The board includes:
and plugs into the GPIO. It all comes pre-soldered and costs about £12 delivered. Read Matt’s review here.
Daniel Nordness and his room-mates wanted to bring in some home automation. The problem was they had a whole variety of equipment to be brought together to get the effect they wanted. Using a combination of Arduino and Raspberry Pi, they’ve managed it. Read more about this project on Daniel’s blog.
The Aberystwyth SailBot team have attended a couple of the Cambridge Raspberry Jams. At their first one, they managed to snag some sponsorship from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to attend a US-based sailing competition. Linux User and Developer have got hold of the team and done a nice interview. So, if you’re a fan of autonomous robots, head on over to the LUD website and read this great interview.
Jacob Salmela has written a comprehensive tutorial on using a USB webcam and mpjg-streamer to stream a live video stream over the net. He’s even covered routing the traffic through your home router. Definitely worth a look if you have a USB camera lying around! Read it here
Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Sway Grantham has started up a networking group for teachers and other educators in the Milton Keynes area called MK:Pi.
The Network is intended for those who have never used a Raspberry Pi before, to those who are adept at using them within a classroom environment. The majority of focus will be for teachers from KS2/3 but if you’re in KS1 or KS4 and want to come along – feel free!
The next meet-up will be during the Autumn term. For a bit more information, and to contact Sway, visit her blog here.
Jeremy Blythe has done a comprehensive tutorial over on tuts+ in which he controls an Adafruit RGB LCD screen from the Pi and displays different tweets in different colours depending on content. Read it here
