The team at Code Club Australia set a world record last year by gathering 10,207 Australian kids together to participate in their coding event Moonhack . But they are not going to rest on their laurels: this year, they’ve set their sights even higher with their event on 15 August . What is Moonhack
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Break a world record with Moonhack 2017
It’s time to swap pedal power for relaxed strides with the Raspberry Pi-assisted Draisine from bicyle-modding pro Prof. Holger Hermanns. So dandy… A Draisine… If you have children yourself or have seen them in the wild on occasion, you may be aware of how much they like balance bikes – bicycle frames without pedals, propelled by striding while sitting on the seat.
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A rather dandy Pi-assisted Draisine
This Raspberry Pi robot paints with light htxt.africa The so-called “Light Rover” is based on a Raspberry Pi 3 with two wheels topped with a Neopixel LED matrix. By programming the robot's movement and the colours and positions of the LEDs, the team was able to create precise photographs instead of the …
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Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Magazine Issue 56 Includes “Incredible Raspberry Pi Projects” Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts will be pleased to know it's that time of month when the Raspberry Pi Foundation releases the next edition of their fantastic monthly magazine The MagPi. In this week's edition issue 56 the team has collated a collection of …
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London-based Solid State Group decided to combine Slack with a giant LED wall, and created a thing of beauty for their office. “BUILD THE WALL we cried aloud
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Build the wall: a huge wall (of LEDs)
Joy Bonnet Controller For Raspberry Pi By Adafruit Now Available For $15 Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts that would like to create a gaming system from the Raspberry Pi Zero may be interested in a new add-on which has been created by the team over at Adafruit and takes the form of the Joy Bonnet for Raspberry Pi . The Joy Bonnet …
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Raspberry Pi Portable Thermal Video Overlay Creator (video) Geeky Gadgets Created using a Raspberry Pi 2 camera combined with a Raspberry Pi Zero mini PC, FLIR Lepton, our Pylepton lib, and a small HDMI touch screen, the team have created a great demonstration platform for the FLIR Lepton thermal imager and our pylepton …
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Geeky Gadgets Smartphone Controlled Raspberry Pi Door Lock (video) Geeky Gadgets Makers or Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy may be interested in this new smartphone connected Raspberry Pi door lock which has been created by the team over at Hacker House. The Raspberry Pi door lock takes the …
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The team at YouTube channel Hacker House always deliver when it comes to clear, detailed tutorials, and their newest project, ‘ How to Make a Smartphone-Connected Door Lock ’, is no exception. Using a Raspberry Pi-powered deadbolt actuator, multiple users can remotely unlock a door via a smartphone app.
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Hacker House Smartphone-Connected Door Lock
While we mostly deal in pretty technologically advanced stuff here at Pi Towers, we are huge fans of the printed word too. It’s great to hear, then, that the Raspberry Pi has been helping booksellers to keep bibliophiles like us supplied with all the reading matter they could wish for. Jeff Podolski, IT and network technician at Wordery, recently got in touch to tell us just how his company has been using the Pi in their warehouse
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Book-wrangling at Wordery with a Raspberry Pi