Scott Turner has combined a couple of other tutorials to enable you to program a gesture interface that will control a model of an X-wing in Minecraft. He builds upon the work done by Martin O’Hanlon and others and adds the Skywriter HAT into the mix. Read how to do it here.
A bunch of amateur hackers from Gloucestershire have created a digital scoreboard for their cricket club using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as the master controller for an Arduino which controls the 7-segment displays. The interface is then accessed via a tablet or laptop and the scores updated remotely. It’s a lovely project, especially considering the group didn’t have any electronics knowledge or experience and they had to rely on tutorials and resources on the Internet to put it together. You can read lots more, including how to do it yourself, on their blog.
Here’s an interesting blog/tutorial. “Mike” takes you through several steps you can take to optimise and firm-up your solid-state file system, in our case the SD card of the Raspberry Pi. It should guard against SD card corruption as much as possible, but it may also affect performance as it uses the RAM of your Raspberry Pi more. Read the blog post here.
Matteo Trevisan has customised the Raspbian operating system to look as close as possible to the AMIGA 1200. You can download the OS image from his site or read more here.
Just spotted this on The Pi Hut‘s newsletter (which you can sign up for by filling in the mini-form at the bottom of every page on their site).
Right at this moment, their Pi Starter Kit (pictured above) is on sale at 20% off for the bargain price of £40 (£10 off!) In the kit, you get the following:
This really is excellent value. Thoroughly recommended. Visit The Pi Hut’s Starter Kit page here.
Dr Lucy Rogers is organising a maker/hacker/Raspberry Pi event at Eagle Labs, which is the new Maker Space in Cambridge. The event will take place between 2-5pm on Saturday, 6th February. Sponsored by Barclays, the Maker Space has lots of equipment to use to bring your projects to life. During the event, you’ll be able to learn more about the Space and also take part in various activities, including a Raspberry Pi show-and-tell. There is parking on site. If you’d like to attend, or get involved by bringing along your own projects, please email cambridgeeaglelabs@barclays.com to let them know you’re coming (there’s a limit of 50 people for the event).
Aged 8 yrs old and up, under 16’s accompanied by parent or guardian, no soldering on site.
