Ted Hale has taken an old Linksys router, ripped the guts out and converted it into a (rather large) case for his Raspberry Pi. He’s now moved on to adding LED indicators (because everything is better with blinkies!) Read more here.
Building a Raspberry Pi B+ into a vintage Apple extended keyboard
Apologies for the lack of posts over the past few days. Pi Wars took up all my energy and I’ve been recovering since then! Plus, I’ve had a few nights out on the trot which means I’ve been unable to get to the blog. Normal service will now be resumed!
Ezra Hilyer has taken an old Apple keyboard, a disassembled wi-fi dongle and an Arduino and built an all-in-one Raspberry Pi unit. You can read how he did it here.
More CamJam EduKit 2 – Sensors coverage
Today at Pi Wars, we launched our second CamJam EduKit. This one comes with three sensors: temperature, movement and light; and all the bits and pieces you need to build circuits with them. Oh, that includes two mahoosive 10mm LEDs. Because everyone needs more blinkies 🙂
We sent out some review kits to various people. Two of these went to Richard Saville (the Average Man) and Alex Eames (from RasPi.TV) and they’ve kindly covered us on their blogs. Here’s some links to the coverage:
You can get hold of the second EduKit for £7 by following this link to The Pi Hut. You can view the worksheet material on the CamJam website here.
Photo credit: Alex Eames, RasPi.TV
New CamJam EduKit for the Raspberry Pi – Sensors!
Myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann from The Pi Hut have teamed up again to bring a low-cost electronics kit to market. Following the international success of the first CamJam EduKit, we wanted to produce something more advanced, but still within the capabilities of the beginner programmer. We came up with the CamJam EduKit – Sensors. This kit (which like the first comes in a lovely tin) contains all the components you need to measure temperature, detect light changes and detect movement. You get a breadboard with which to make up all the circuits, plus all the wires and resistors you need. You also get a couple of LEDs (because everyone needs blinkies) and a buzzer. The temperature sensor, in particular, is lovely because it comes as a shrouded module on the end of a long wire so you can measure the temperature outside, or of a cup of water (or, indeed any liquid). The whole thing costs £7 including VAT, which we’re hoping you’ll agree is great value and perfect as a stocking filler! 🙂
As with the first EduKit, this one comes with a suite of worksheets for you to work through, with explained code examples and circuit diagrams. These have been produced by Tim and tested by me and we’re really proud of the way they’ve turned out. As with the first EduKit, these worksheets will be updated and tweaked as we receive feedback (some of which we have already had from our beta testers), so don’t forget to sign up to the mailing list! While I’m here, I’d like to give a big shout out to our beta testers, especially Richard Saville (the Average Man) and Sway Humphries, who have given us such excellent feedback.
You can get hold of the new EduKit by going to http://camjam.me/edukit2 and following the link to The Pi Hut.
An internet of things lorry using a Raspberry Pi
Andy Proctor has installed a Raspberry Pi into the cab of his truck so that he can send simple messages back to HQ when certain events occur. You can read more over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog.
Hacking toolbox to teach electronics with the Raspberry Pi and Minecraft
“Piper” was developed by Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Alex Stokes, and Shree Bose and it uses a modified version of Minecraft running on Raspberry Pi to walk players through creating circuits and interacting with them. It’s currently under development and beta test with schools and museum visitor groups. You can see a picture of the kit above and you can read more about it by reading this interview with the creators over at Make.