Martin O’Hanlon wanted a controller for his robot and settled on an XBox 360 wireless controller. He used a £5 USB dongle for the initial communication and then wrote a script in pygame to interface to the controller. You can read more and see the code here.
It’s almost Halloween. Joy.
Allen Heard has taken a pumpkin, a Pi and a Pibrella and mixed it with some other basic electronics to create a scary object to sit on his doorstep. Here’s a video of it and you can see photos of the build here.
In an effort to reduce the number of items he has to count when doing his annual stock-take (and to celebrate his second year in business), Jamie at The Pi Hut has decided to have a massive stock clearance sale. There are loads of items with between 10% and 75% off. So, if you need to grab some bits, now is a great time to get yourself a bargain! Here are a few of the highlights:
Right! I’m off to buy some stuff
RACHEL-Pi is a great project that is being used in remote locations to distribute educational materials. Here’s what Liz Upton has to say about it on the Foundation’s blog:
RACHEL is an offline server, run on a Raspberry Pi, full of educational content from teaching curriculums, Khan Academy materials, Wikipedia, classic literature, reference material and textbooks; alongside vital community materials like medical and first aid textbooks.
The main body of the blog-post is written by Jeremy Schwartz, who is the Executive Director of World Possible – an organisation that has pushed RACHEL out all over the world. It’s great to read about the success of this initiative and how the Pi is involved. Read the blog post here.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the release of the CAD files for the Compute Module IO Board. Here’s what they say about the format that they’ve been released in:
The design files are the Cadence OrCAD schematic file, Cadence Allegro PCB file and the full board Gerbers, bill of materials (BOM) and PDF version of the schematic. People should be able to take the design and easily modify it, or just take the Gerber files and create copies of the board if that’s what they want to do.
