I’ve just had this resource pointed out to me on Twitter, so thought I’d share it with you all whilst I’m waiting to go to our work’s Christmas lunch.
The SenseHAT has an on-board accelerometer, with which you can measure pitch, roll and yaw. It also has an 8×8 matrix of LEDs. Put these together and you can create a ‘marble maze’. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a resource to show you how to do it.
Richard Saville (aka AverageMan) previously ran Kickstarters for prototyping boards for the full-size Raspberry Pi. Now, he’s taken things smaller and created the ProtoZero. He is now running a Kickstarter to raise funds to produce it.
The ProtoZero is a Zero-sized prototyping board which gives you 154 holes of prototyping space in linked blocks of 3s and 4s as well as broken-out GPIO pins. It’s a lovely design (especially with the name emblazoned across the back) and will really come in really useful for those little projects that you want to move from breadboard to something more permanent. It is compatible with all versions of the Pi (see picture below) and is available for £5 (including UK postage, international postage is a bit extra). There are other pledge options available for multiple units. See the Kickstarter here. I’m off to place my pledge!
Giles Booth continues his series using the SenseHAT with this rather nifty weather forecasting script. It reads a forecast from the BBC news API and then performs some text-replacement jiggery-pokery before outputting the information to the SenseHAT’s matrix display. Really glad he’s focusing on the SenseHAT, seeing as it is now in Space, and it shows how versatile a device it is. Read more here.
Hi everyone. The winner of the give-away was Mr S Gailey. Sorry if you didn’t win – hopefully I’ll run more give-aways next year, so look out for them 🙂
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Giles Booth has followed up his previous work with the SenseHAT to create a dice rolling device. The SenseHAT detects G-forces via the onboard accelerometer and then, when a tolerance is breached, the Pi generates a random number which is displayed on the SenseHAT’s LED matrix. A nice, tidy piece of programming and very useful. Read the detail and code here.
Just a quick shout-out to the Royston Crow who have featured Amaideo Page-John (aka Crazy Squeak) and his programming work that has been launched into space with Tim Peake. The 10-year old, from Royston, was one of the lucky entrants in the Astro Pi competition which sees code written by children being run on two Astro Pi units in orbit about the International Space Station. Read the Crow article here. You can follow Crazy Squeak’s blog here.
