Fun little article over at Raspberry Pi Spy about running a Matrix-like program on the Pi. Might use it as some sort of ‘loading’ screen for the PiPodCorder.
Matrix Pi – Running CMatrix on the Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Spy.
Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam #5 (6th January 2013)
A sold-out Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam at Bletchley Park! A great meeting with loads of people with stuff to show. So, a quick round-up of some of the things I saw!
- A BigTrak tank robot with Star Wars webcam controlled by a web interface.
- A buggy robot remote-controlled with WSAD keys.
- Quick2Wire’s Romilly Cocking with demonstration breakout boards including a light resistor/LED bar display.
- An LED Ladder Game from Gordon at Drogon expertly soldered by a youngster.
- Various boards with impressive LED experiments on them.
There were several other demos, but these are the ones I remember!
I was dead chuffed with my own PiPodCorder demo which gained quite a bit of interest and performed admirably and consistently. The only slight wrinkle caused by a slight mis-calibration with a temperature sensor which was giving a reading of 250+ degrees C!
Looking forward to the next one on the 27th January!
Raspberry Pi RC Race Car Is Controlled With Cheese [reblog]
Yes, you read that right. Cheese 🙂
Raspberry Pi RC Race Car Is Controlled With Cheese | Wired Design | Wired.com.
LapPi – A Raspberry Pi Netbook
An alternative to the standard Motorola Lapdock modification is this laptop-in-a-case! Great Instructable. Requires the Raspy Juice expansion board, though.
Measure temperature with Arduino and MCP9700
Found a useful tutorial on using this tiny temperature sensor with the Arduino. Using the Raspberry Pi to program the Arduino using ‘ino’ and then monitoring the serial output with ‘ino serial’, I got a temperature reading and the whole thing, including wiring up, took me less than 15 minutes!
http://starter-kit.nettigo.eu/2010/how-to-measure-temperature-with-arduino-and-mcp9700/
Thank you kindly to the original author of the post, markal.
Next up from that same blog is using a PIR motion sensor!
Raspberry Pi and Arduino – thank you Dr Monk!
Very informative post on Dr Monk’s blog about connecting an Arduino to the Pi and reading serial information using Python. Helped me have a very successful evening getting a Hello World experiment working. Saved my Pi from the bin, too!