Richard Hayler recently attended the Skycademy training course to learn how to fly high-altitude balloons with Raspberry Pi payloads. He has now merged his experience with one of his hobbies – kite flying. Previously he used kites to aerial-map the…
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Skycademy write-up shows how exciting it was!
Lots of us followed the exploits of the recent Skycademy on Twitter and on the HabHub tracking website. Although we were basically following icons on a Google Map, I found it enthralling and it was great to hear the constant…
Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8×8 Neopixel matrix on the…
Animate the LED matrix on the Astro Pi
Richard Hayler has been continuing his work with the Astro Pi. He’s now moved on from creating static images on the LED matrix to creating simple animations. These are created one frame at a time in a GUI that he’s…
Detecting sweaty astronauts with the Raspberry Pi’s Astro Pi board
Richard Hayler’s primary school Code Club has recently been selected as one of the winning entries in the Astro Pi competition. Their code is one of the projects that will actually run on the International Space Station! It uses the Astro…
Simon Says game made with a Raspberry Pi and a Pimoroni ExplorerHAT
Richard Hayler has produced a Simon Says game by wiring up some LEDs onto the breadboard of an ExplorerHAT and then writing the necessary Python code. The LEDs light up in a sequence which you then match by pressing the ExplorerHAT…
Control a Sphero robot from the Raspberry Pi with Astro Pi
Another one from Richard Hayler. This time, he’s using Python on the Raspberry Pi to detect changes in the Astro Pi’s accelerometer and then translate that into commands he sends over bluetooth to a Sphero. The Sphero is a cute little…
Create images for the Raspberry Pi AstroPi HAT
Richard Hayler and his Code Club are currently experimenting with the AstroPi board and were fascinated by the way you can display scrolling text and images on the 8×8 matrix display. Richard has created a little Python/Pygame app that will allow you…
Measuring humidity with the AstroPi and the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has also been working with the AstroPi. His school’s project is to detect the presence of an astronaut by measuring the amount of sweat in the air using the AstroPi’s onboard humidity sensor. He is documenting his work…
DiddyBorg with joystick control on the Raspberry Pi
The Diddyborg from PiBorg is a lovely, hard-wearing, speed robot. Richard Hayler has taken an old digital joystick he had lying around and hooked it up to a Slice of Pi prototyping board on the Pi so that the Diddyborg’s…