Richard Hayler (who has previously done very many cool things with a Pi) has developed his own “kite mapping” rig using a Raspberry Pi. He’s taken a model A+, a camera module, an Xtrinsic Sensor board and a ProtoCam prototyping board, meshed…
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Raspberry Pi egg-laying machine
Richard Hayler and his sons have been at the LEGO again. This time, they’ve created a LEGO chicken which lays real eggs by using motors to manipulate an egg out of the tail end. Read all about it here.
Fixing GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has done a great guide on how to fix bent pins on the Pi. A lot of it is common sense, but sometimes it’s nice to have some advice on a common problem. Have a read here if…
Reaction game with ScratchGPIO on the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler is currently running a Code Club at his school. This week he created a worksheet which helped his class make a reaction game using ScratchGPIO, a breadboard, a couple of switches and an LED. Take a look at…
The evolution of Raspberry Pi… in LEGO
This is by far the coolest thing on the Internet. Richard Hayler and his sons have constructed a huge LEGO representation of the history of Raspberry Pi tracking it’s evolution from concept to its eventual Astro Pi launch into space…
Marshmallow fun with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has adapted one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s resources into a single-page worksheet (pictured above) for use at his Code Club. The project uses a marshmallow and a paper clip to create a button which can be detected using ScratchGPIO.…
Scrolling text on the Raspberry Pi Unicorn HAT
Richard Hayler (who wrote an excellent blog post on generating 3D text inside Minecraft) has also written some code which will scroll text across a Unicorn HAT. Read his blog post about it here. You can buy a Unicorn HAT for around…
Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi – See your name in blocks!
Richard Hayler wanted a way to produce Minecraft-themed birthday cards for his sons friends. So, he decided to use Minecraft Pi Edition to it! He wrote a script which takes in the name you want to generate and then pipes…
Replicate multiple SD cards at once with dcfldd
This is a handy, albeit brief, tutorial and explanation from Richard Hayler in which he uses the enhanced Linux dd utility dcfldd to write an SD card image to multiple SD cards at once. Read how to do it here. Very…