Darren Christie has written a quick blog post with some code to play a musical scale on the Pibrella’s buzzer. Read how to do it here.
A #RaspberryPi powered programmable solar cooker
Michael Nicholas over at MakeZine.com has blogged about his project to create a rotation device for his solar cooker, called the Solrmatic. You can read more over at MakeZine.
You can get updates on their project by signing up to their mailing list at solrmatic.com or by reading their blog.
Sonic Pi gets a boost from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts
Cambridge Junction, along with Cambridge University Faculty of Education and The Raspberry Pi Foundation have been given £124,633 by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. The money will go towards developing Sonic Pi, which seeks to teach programming using sound and music, and using it in both formal and informal teaching. More information is available from the Cambridge News website.
Morse code translator with the #RaspberryPi
I haven’t got much detail on this project, but thought I’d share it anyway.
13-year old Kyle Seaman has used a Raspberry Pi to take keyboard input and translate what he types into morse code. The morse code is then tapped out on an old-fashioned telegraph key (shown in the foreground of the picture above).
Fantastic to see what a youngster can do with the Pi and a worthy project to try and replicate.
Original article from the Monroe Monitor website. Photo by Jim Scolman
Review of the #RaspberryPi Wolfson audio card
Linux User and Developer magazine has posted it’s 4/5 review for the Wolfson Audio card. The card allows high quality input and output of audio through the GPIO pins and uses the P5 header of rev 2 Pis. It appears to be a good bit of kit but the software lets it down and is still very young. Read the review here. You can buy one of these cards from various suppliers including The Pi Hut for around £30.
Mirror, Mirror on the #RaspberryPi
Michael Teeuw has created a rather stylish magic mirror effect with a Raspberry Pi. You have to read how he did it to believe it – it’s a fantastic project. He’s done a complete tutorial on how he did it and he’s open sourced his code. Read all about it here