What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi; 57 geometrically tiled, thumb-sized joysticks; a spot of multiplexing; and some Bach? A completely new musical instrument , that’s what. David Sharples says: We wanted to invent an entirely new electronic musical instrument, and there were two things we wanted to focus on in the design of the interface.
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Joytone
Geeky gadgets Navio Raspberry Pi Autopilot Shield Lets You Easily Take Control of Your … Geeky gadgets Might be interested in a new device called the Navio Raspberry Pi Autopilot Shield which over the last three years has been developed into a commercial microcontroller based autopilot
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Russians turn Raspberry Pi into fully-fledged autopilot Register Anyone with an interest in Raspberry Pis and autopilots – in common with the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team – should nip down to Indiegogo to check out the Navio: an impressive-looking autopilot shield for the diminutive fruity computer.
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Skinner boxes are a kind of apparatus used for conditioning and training animals in scientific studies. You’ll almost certainly have read about them or seen them on TV: an animal is rewarded with a treat for pressing a button; or trained to respond to a patter of lights or other stimuli (like shapes, music and other sounds, or drawings). This is the sort of arrangement where a sequence of behavioural primitives (light flashes green, animal pokes green button, is rewarded with a snack) can be threaded together to create really useful data for behavioural scientists.
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Train your rat: behavioural science at home
Eagle-eyed followers of all things Pi will have noticed that Craig Richardson , Minecraft savant (here’s his free book on teaching with Minecraft , which should be required reading for all teachers – and here are some recipe cards he’s produced to get your kids started) and all-round lovely chap, has been popping up a lot in photos of the office on Twitter recently. Craig’s been hanging out here a lot, not least because he started a full-time role with the education team here at Pi Towers yesterday
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Molded enclosure houses Raspberry Pi Model B EDN.com Hammond Electronics has developed a new moulded enclosure specifically designed to house the Raspberry Pi Model B credit card sized computer. The 1593HAM is available in translucent blue, grey and black; the enclosure features a stylish rounded
The MinIMU-9 v2 (catchy, no?) is a tiny inertial measurement unit (IMU).
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Real-time orientation display with the MinIMU-9 v2
Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi PiConsole Enables Wireless And USB Serial Console Access Geeky gadgets Developers, makers and hobbyists looking for a way to access their Raspberry Pi via a wireless connection might be interested in a new device that has been created by Open Electrons called the Raspberry Pi PiConsole. The Raspberry Pi PiConsole has