Alex Markley , a programmer, writer and comedian, has a young relative who, thanks to a Model A Raspberry Pi, some Adafruit Neopixels , some sensors and a scooter is currently the world’s happiest nine-year-old. I asked Alex if he’s written the project up – he says he’s working on it. We’ll add a link to any build instructions he produces as soon as they’re available
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Scooter with blinkenlights
Earlier this week, we talked about Raspberry Pi robots under the sofa .
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Robot volcanology
Liz: If you’re a regular reader, you’ll have noticed more and more frequent mentions over the last year of a piece of kit called RACHEL-Pi.
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RACHEL-Pi – delivering education worldwide
Geeky gadgets (blog) Raspberry Pi -powered Pi-Top 3D printed laptop hits crowdfunding site Indiegogo Inquirer THE PI-TOP, a 3D printed Raspberry Pi -powered laptop, has hit crowd funding site Indiegogo and reached almost a quarter of its goal in less than 24 hours. At the time of writing, the project had reached $17,892, representing 22 percent of its goal of …
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At Picademy , our awesome free training course for teachers, I run a workshop to introduce teachers to using the camera module with Python, and show them how to wire up a GPIO button they can use to trigger the camera. I always make a point of saying “now you know this, what can you make it do?” and suggest some uses for the setup – stop-motion animation, motion sensing or sending pictures to Twitter
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Make a Tweeting Babbage
If you’re unlucky enough to have required precise, timed doses of drugs through an IV in hospital; or if you’ve worked in a lab where controlled amounts of chemicals have needed to be added to an experiment on schedule, you’ll be intimately familiar with syringe pumps. They look like this. And they’re expensive.
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Open-source syringe pump
Carrie Anne – I have an ongoing long-term love affair with Sonic Pi ever since Dr
Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi AR/VR Powered Smart Cap DIY Project Unveiled (video) Geeky gadgets Arvind Sanjeev has this week unveiled a new project he has been working on which combines a baseball cap and the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC to create a wearable computer system complete with screen. If you cannot afford to purchase the new
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’
Dominique Laloux first got in touch with us in May 2013 when he was on the point of leaving to spend a year in the rural Kuma region of Togo in Western Africa, an area where, until 2012, 75% of teachers had never used a computer. He had previously joined a team of Togolese friends to set up the Kuma Computer Center in the mountain village of Kuma Tokpli for the students and teachers of five local secondary schools, and planned to introduce Raspberry Pis there. The building that currently houses Kuma Computer Center’s first computer room in Kuma Tokpli We next heard from Dominique earlier this month.
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The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo