The boys over at The Pi Podcast have published their latest episode. This time, they interview teacher (and all-round nice person) Sway Grantham as well as cover various news topics such as the recent acquisition of Premier Farnell by Dätwyler for £792m. Listen to the podcast now.
US-based Dexter Industries has just launched a new Kickstarter which aims to get you started using Grove sensors. The GrovePi-Zero is, unsurprisingly, a Zero form-factor add-on board which gives you plug-in connections for six Grove modules – 3 analog, 1 serial and 2 digital. It comes with software and tutorials (both video and written) to help you. You can get the board by itself for $17 at the moment (early-bird) plus postage and there are other pledge levels which include various sensor modules. Take a look here.
The good old Robosapien gets a Raspberry Pi brain in this great write-up from Carl Monk. The Zero is used to interface with the IR port to enable him to control the robot via wifi. Read more here and see the code here.
Dylan Schuster over at losant.com has taken two Raspberry Pi 3s and hooked them up to two custom turn-key-and-button boxes. He’s then used Losant’s new MQTT and REST clients to make them Internet of Things devices. By sending messages from the two Pis and receiving messages back, the system will only ‘activate’ if both keys are turned. Read more here.
Teased in a video stream some weeks ago, the Enviro pHAT has now been launched by Pimoroni. It includes the following:
As well as the included sensors, the ADC provides 4 channels for you to plug in your own sensors.
As usual, the pHAT comes with a Python library allowing you to get readings and display them.
You can get hold of the Enviro pHAT for £16 (plus shipping) from Pimoroni.
Francesco Vannini over at Garage Tech recently got hold of a PaPiRus Zero. It’s the latest add-on board for Pi Supply and, like the original PaPiRus, it is an e-ink display. Francesco has done a video walk-around of the new board and the two different screen sizes available. Take a look here.
