Photo credit: Alex Eames, RasPi.TV
Alex Eames has done a round-up video of the case options available to you if you own a Raspberry Model A+. It’s quite a short video but it does showcase both the cases you can buy and that you can make yourself. Worth a watch. Take a look on RasPi.TV.
Hosting company UKFast recently ran workshops for The Dean Trust Ashton-On-Mersey School in which the kids learned home automation concepts and used Minecraft Pi Edition to learn programming. You can hear a bit more about it from the people involved below:
Liam Jarvis, of the University of London at Royal Holloway, and his team from the Analogue Theatre Company have created an experiential art installation called Transports. Here’s what New Scientist has to say about this incredible project:
It aims to simulate the physical and psychological effects of the early stages of Parkinson’s disease by taking inspiration from body illusions, like the rubber hand trick, in which the brain accepts a fake limb as its own.
To create the sensations, you wear a glove fitted with a motorised device, while looking at a screen you hold in the other hand. The device recreates tremors running at 6 hertz, which is the upper limit of those experienced by people with Parkinson’s disease.
They researched the sensations experienced by Parkinson’s sufferers by working closely with a neuroscientist at Royal Holloway and was developed using low-cost technology. The components are all controlled by a Raspberry Pi.
You can read more by viewing this article on the New Scientist website.
In this brilliant guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, Andrew Mulholland has described the activities occurring at the Jams he runs and shared some lovely quotes from his attendees. Read the post here.
Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has just launched a Kickstarter for the BerryIMU which is an I2C sensor board which contains an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope. Now, obviously you can get those sensors separately but rarely have I seen a package this small that contains all three. He’s planning on fully documenting the board and providing example code to enable you to take all the readings. Mark’s last KS was the PiScreen, a 3.5″ TFT, and that was incredibly successful. I wish him well with this one – the board is an incredibly useful learning tool as well as being perfect for things like wheeled robots, quadcopters etc. I’m going to back it as I want one for the new version of the Picorder (of which you’ll hear more over the following weeks and months).
You can get hold of a BerryIMU for 20 Australian dollars (which is about £10, including worldwide delivery – an absolute bargain considering how much the three sensors would cost independently) by backing the Kickstarter campaign. See the campaign video below. Let’s make this happen for Mark and get hold of this brilliant little board!
Peter Onion recently attended the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Skills Night and showed off his Raspberry Pi Panadapter. I’ve seen it in person at Potton Pi and Pints and I have to say it’s brilliant. You set the equipment up and then you can see a graphical representation of the radio signals on the Pi’s screen. You can then identify which frequencies have stuff going on and tune accordingly. Here’s a video of it in action:
