Brandon Green has created a Polargraph. It’s a vertical old-fashioned plotter that uses a program written in ‘Go’ on the Raspberry Pi to send commands to an Arduino which then controls two stepper motors connected to thread to move the pen that draws the picture. (That was a hideously long sentence!) Read more on Brandon’s Google code page.
Adafruit has just announced a competition that should get all you budding photographers out there excited. Anyone worldwide can enter and all you need is a Raspberry Pi and either a camera module or a USB camera. More details, including how to enter, can be found on the Adafruit blog.
There will be a Raspberry Jam in Horsham on Sunday, July 20th from 1pm-4pm. Hosted by St Mary’s CE Primary School (recent winners of the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi Competition) and they are currently looking for people to express an interest in attending and, perhaps, demonstrating some of their Pi projects. The full address of the venue is:
St Mary’s CE Primary School
Normandy
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 1JL
The school will be demonstrating both of it’s entries in to the PA Consulting competition and expect to have around 12 tables available for the display of other projects. There will also be a drop-in Scratch intro workshop running throughout the day. Rest assured, there is plenty of parking on-site.
For more details and to express an interest in participating or attending, please contact hackhorsham@gmail.com
Andy Felong took a Raspberry Pi, a case for an old radio, an amplifier and an LCD plus driver board and created a media centre. He’s given a few more details on his blog and, if you post in the comments, he may write the whole thing up! Read it here
Exciting news from the Raspberry Pi Foundation today. The development kit for the new Compute Module is now available from RS (£170 including VAT and delivery) and Element14 (£152 including VAT and delivery). Not too sure why there is such a price discrepancy, but I guess that’s competition for you! More information about capabilities and current compatibility with Raspbian is available over on the Foundation blog.
Parker Reed decided he wanted to allow his car stereo to play audio received over bluetooth. So, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi with a bluetooth dongle to his car’s cigarette lighter power socket (using a USB adapter) and altered various start-up files. Then, it was just a case of wiring in the 3.5mm socket on the Pi to a line-in on his car stereo. You can read how he did it over on Reddit.
