Japanese company Softbank is to make a £24bn bid to buy Cambridge-based ARM Holdings. The Raspberry Pi’s CPU contains an ARM processor, along with the VideoCore GPU. What this will mean for the Raspberry Pi is anyone’s guess at this point. However, Softbank have said that they intend to invest in, and grow, the Cambridge operation so chances are nothing will change in the short-to-medium term. Read more on the BBC.
Initial State is one of the ever-growing list of sites that take data from your internet of things device and allow you to create dashboards displaying that data. It is one of the better ones, and they’ve certainly ploughed a lot of development time into creating a very tactile, attractive front end.
In their latest tutorial, they have taken readings from the Raspberry Pi’s internal system and process data and created a dashboard that gives you an idea of the internal health of your Pi. Take a look here.
Oh no, not another list, I hear you cry! 🙂 Well, I wrote this one, myself, for The Pi Hut.
It’s a collection of projects that you can do with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Obviously, it has a bit of a Pi Hut slant in terms of accessories to buy. I enjoyed writing this one, actually – it gave me an excuse to think of things that you can do with the Zero and to research how to do them.
We are making a triumphant return to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (UK) on Saturday, 17th September. We’ll have our usual mix of Talks, Workshops, Show-and-Tell and, of course, the ever-popular Marketplace. 🙂
Tickets are available from Eventbrite. Tickets are free for those 16-and-under and £3 for adults.
More information about CamJam can be found on our website.
Alex Eames has dug through his review pile and come up with 7 items (!) to look at. The items are as follows:
You can see his capsule reviews in the video below and vote for an in-depth look at a product here:
Nine year old Arnav Sharma is the 2016 Tech4Good Winner of Winners and the holder of the People’s Award following a ceremony at the BT Centre. He won the prizes for his AsthmaPi Kit, a device to help parents of asthma suffers, and it all runs from a Raspberry Pi!
Arnav studied the causes and effects of asthma and came up with the AsthmaPi which uses a Raspberry Pi, a Sense Hat, an MQ-135 Gas Sensor, a Sharp Optical Dust Sensor and an Arduino Uno. It is programmed in Python and C++ and triggers email and SMS text message alerts to take medication and remind patients to go for review visits. There is also an accompanying booklet which describes the condition and how to treat it. The sensors on the SenseHAT are used to measure temperature and humidity and the MQ gas sensor detects smoke, nitrogen compounds and host of other airborne triggers.
See more about the project in Arnav’s video, below:
This is just a terrific project from such a young person and it’s great to see him get the recognition the project deserves. Nice one Arnav!
The Tech4Good awards celebrate technological innovation that makes the world a better place.
