Christian Cawley over at makeuseof.com has done a great tutorial on using avconv together with a Raspberry Pi camera module to stream to YouTube. Take a look here.
Table-top Tetris game from York uses a Raspberry Pi 2 for retro gaming goodness
John Cooper from York Hackspace has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. It uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to control strips of Neopixel-like LEDs which sit in little foam cube holes beneath the translucent tabletop surface. It’s low-resolution but it is, frankly, beautiful and it’s not limited to just playing Tetris either – a version of Snake is planned and the system is capable of two-player action too! He welcomes your pull requests on GitHub if you have any game ideas! The code is available here and you can read a little more in this blog post from York Hackspace.
Get started with Android Things on the Raspberry Pi 3
Harry Fairhead over at i-programmer.info has written a nice getting started guide for Android Things, the new Java-based platform for the Raspberry Pi 3. He covers getting the image installed on the Pi and the initial connection, before going on to simple GPIO operations using the Java language. Read more here.
Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend 2017 – Tickets now on sale!
The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend is on 4th-5th March next year at Cambridge Junction. Tickets are now on sale and are free for under-16s and just £5 per day for everyone else. Get your tickets here.
Great collection of Raspberry Pi project resources from Les Pounder
Les Pounder, who writes for various Linux and Pi magazines and is an all-round top bloke :-), has just drawn my attention to a great list of Pi-related resources that he has written. There’s loads of projects and guides, including some that you just have to try over Christmas including a mashup between Sonic Pi and Minecraft, a game of physical computing (Robot Operation) and a DIY Crane that you can make using Explorer HAT Pro. So take a look at Les’ projects page here.
An oscilloscope and function generator created using a Raspberry Pi and a PIC32
Advitya Khanna, Jeff Witz and Danna Ma teamed up for their final year project on a Cornell University course, Designing with Microcontrollers. They have created a combination digital oscilloscope and function generator that runs an interface on a Raspberry Pi and takes readings and generates functions via a PIC32 chip over the SPI bus. This is a great example of technology being used to do what it’s good at: the Pi does the front-end stuff, whilst the real-time capabilities of the PIC are utilised for readings.
You can read their final project documentation here and see a video of it being demonstrated below: