Doug Gore and the PiCymru team have developed a new kit that turns common objects into touch capacitive devices and then feeds the input signals back into the Raspberry Pi. It’s called PiFun and is inspired by MakeyMakey. The kit, which is available from 4tronix, comes with a breadboard, jumper wires, crocodile clips, resistors and an Adafruit Pi Cobbler. All the code and an instruction sheet are available from GitHub.
Spencer Organ has published the code for a Raspberry Pi-powered touchscreen advent calendar. So, get ready for the festive season, see more details here and download the code here. You can change the photographs to your own pictures if you wish by simply replacing the files in the photos sub-folder.
Cerys Lock is organising a Jam on the evening of Tuesday, 11th October at The Signpost Centre in Stafford. The event runs from 6-8.30pm and will be a Show & Tell / Lighting talks -type event. You can get hold of free tickets here.
Here’s a good one from Instructables’ user Postron. He’s taken a Pi Zero, an Adafruit GPS module, an Adafruit LiPo power board and a LiPo then constructed a circuit with buttons and resistors on prototyping board to create a portable GPS logger. Take a look at how he did it here.
Richard Saville, aka Average Man, has been testing out the ModMyPi PiOT relay board. He goes through the various functions of the board and even tries them out using a cheap Dremel-like hand drill… He does, however, point out that this is a bad idea and that mains voltage is not perhaps the best use for this board. It’s good for lower voltages, what he terms Maker Voltages. Read the review here.
Arkatechture previously linked their coffee machine and popcorn maker to their Slack instant messages group. Now, they’ve taken an old traffic light, wired up another Pi with relays to control it, and then hooked that up to the two machines as well. You can read more here and you can control the traffic lights yourself here!
