Alex Eames has been busy creating a new video for owners of the excellent RasPiO Duino board. This one takes you through experiments you can do with the PWM pins on the Duino and helps you to create a colour-fading ball display using a ping-pong ball as a diffuser. You can take a look at the video here. You can get hold of the Duino from the rasp.io website or from The Pi Hut for about £12.
Robert Threet is a pigeon racer from Evansville, Indiana. He has added to the high-tech equipment used for recording pigeon arrivals (RFID tags – very swish) – a Raspberry Pi with a motion detector that triggers the attached Pi camera to take a photograph. Read more about Robert and his efforts over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog.
Photo credit: Robert Threet
Renato Athaydes has written a nice tutorial on installing Groovy and then Spark onto the Pi. He then goes through a simple tutorial that shows you how to build a simple web application using the framework. Between you and me, as a ColdFusion developer it looks way too complicated, but horses-for-courses I guess! Read the tutorial here.
Hi all.
Apologies for the lack of blog posts over the last few days. I was struck down with food poisoning on Monday afternoon and have been out of commission since then. I’m hoping to start doing plenty of blog posts come the weekend, but I should certainly be okay again by Monday.
Gordon from IQAudIO has done a bang-up job at restoring his late grandmother’s vintage Roberts radio. He’s used one of IQAudIO’s own boards, the Pi-DigiAMP+ and a pair of small speakers to output music from a variety of online sources via Shairport Sync software (which is an AirTunes emulator). It really is a labour of love and he’s not done yet! Read more about the project over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog.
Cornwall-based news site The Cornishman has featured Raspberry Pi’s Dave Honess in a special report which covers his work on Astro Pi. Read the article here. It’s a nice article which explains Astro Pi and talks about some of the winning projects.
