First-year Computer Science projects from Imperial College in London have been providing us with some really, really cool stuff for this blog over the last couple of years. Not to be outdone, the Chemistry faculty have hopped on board the Raspberry Pi bus as well – only they’re using LEGO too, which we calculate to be worth at least an extra eleven cool points
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LEGO spectrometers
Pi-Raq creates a rack-mountable monitor for your Raspberry Pi Inquirer RASPBERRY PI has taken the jump into the data centre with a rack-mountable Pi and monitor combo. The Pi-Raq (geddit?) is the invention of EarthLCD, and is designed to be a 1U rack-mountable appliance and enclosure for the EarthLCD 10x1in colour TFT
When I first joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over a year ago now, one of my first assignments was to build a weather station around the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to our friends at Oracle (the large US database company), the Foundation received a grant not only to design and build a Raspberry Pi weather station for schools, but also to put together a whole education programme to go with it.
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Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools
Dave: We’re really happy to announce a new project in partnership with British Astronaut Tim Peake, UK Space and the European Space Agency: we’re sending Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station! Read on to find out how to get your code running on them… Leading UK space organisations have joined forces with British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake and Raspberry Pi to offer students a chance to devise and code their own apps or experiment to run in space. Two Raspberry Pi computers are planned to be flown to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Tim’s 6 month mission and both will be connected to a new “Astro Pi” board, loaded with a host of sensors and gadgets. Launched today at an event held by the UK Space Agency , the Astro Pi competition will be officially opened at the BETT conference (21-24 January) and will be open to all primary and secondary school aged children who are resident in the United Kingdom.
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Astro Pi: Your Code in Space
Carrie Anne: A few weeks ago, Raspberry Pi hosted its first ever Young Rewired State centre and took part in the Festival of Code. We had a lot of fun
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Getting hooked on programming with YRS project ‘Hook’
Helen: Today we’re delighted to have a guest post from 17-year-old student Arne Baeyens, aka Robotanicus, who has form in designing prize-winning robots.
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An image-processing robot for RoboCup Junior
Liz: Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, makes a habit of finding interesting people for us to talk to. She works with the creative industries on supporting their work with the Pi, and introducing people who aren’t the usual maths/physics suspects to computing – and while she does that, she discovers some really amazing projects
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KittenGroomer/CIRClean – data security for journalists and activists
Greg Cope mailed us a few weeks ago with a pointer to this project, which has been monitoring DevOps at the Financial Times (FT) here in the UK. It’s hard for everyone in the group to simultaneously maintain an overview of the health of the stack under normal circumstances. They use Nagios , a great piece of kit with one fatal flaw: Nagios emails everybody on the team every time a check changes state
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The big flashing DevOps thing
Power a Car Diagnostics System with a Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Every newer car has a OBD port where you can access real time data from all your car's sensors. DIYer studio CowFish wanted live access to this data, so they built a system with a Raspberry Pi that reads the data and displays it on a screen built into …
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Power a Car Diagnostics System with a Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker
YouTuber Arganalth has an interesting hobby: music production using disk drives.
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Back to the Future theme tune, played by disk drives