AB Electronics has previously created several add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. Now, they have re-spun some of their boards for the Raspberry Pi Zero with much smaller footprints. Take a look at their new range here.
Indian students’ air pollution network uses Raspberry Pi to bring it all together
Students at the National Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India, are using a Raspberry Pi to bring together air quality readings and make them available on the internet. The students (Richie John, Shishir Sheshadri and Aparna Velampudi, who are studying Electronics and Communication Engineering), and their professor M S Bhat, will distribute sensors which are connected to a network. The network hub will be a Raspberry Pi which will expose the results to the outside world. They have already used the system to study air quality on the NIT-K campus and they hope to encourage others to use the readings and turn it into a fully-fledged system. Story found on Times of India.
Coventry and Warwickshire Raspberry Jam – 20th July
Quite a long notice for this one. This is a show-and-tell Jam at Nicholas Chamberlaine School in Bedworth from 5.30-8pm. Chris Penn is organising and he’d like you to get your tickets here. Please note, there are special arrangements for under 16s, so please read the event blurb.
Retro gaming Raspberry Pi Zero crammed into an Altoids tin
Sometimes you see a project that just makes you smile. This is one such. As you can see from the video above, it’s a mini Raspberry Pi Zero-powered retro gaming machine crammed into an Altoids tin. Not much detail other than the maker has used a ‘hacked-to-pieces’ DS Lite controller and ‘various other bits’. Great stuff – show your appreciation by thumbing up the video and/or leaving a comment.
New Sonic Pi book released by Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi
Sam Aaron, author of the popular music-creation program Sonic Pi has written a new book for The MagPi. The book has 10 chapters and topics include:
- Mastering live loops
- Building drum breaks
- Composing your own melodies
- Making random riffs and loops
- Learning to shape and sculpt sounds
You can buy the book for £2.99/$3.99 on Android or iOS or download it for free from The MagPi website.
Star Trek LCARS interface on the Raspberry Pi using Pygame
Toby Kurien has released a video (see above) and accompanying code for a Pygame-driven implementation of the famous Star Trek LCARS interface. It’s really top-notch work, with sound effects and everything. One of my personal holy grails, so I’ll be dipping into the code really soon! Leave a comment for Toby on YouTube and take a look at the code here.