When James Puderer moved to Lima, Peru, his roadside runs left a rather nasty taste in his mouth. Hit by the pollution from old diesel cars in the area, he decided to monitor the air quality in his new city using Raspberry Pis and the abundant taxies as his tech carriers.
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Using taxies to monitor air quality in Peru
Inside Opendoor's self-guided home tour tech, Raspberry Pi Inman.com Imagine unlocking the front door of a listing with a single tap.
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Inside Opendoor’s self-guided home tour tech, Raspberry Pi – Inman.com
Back in May 2013, we heard from Dominique Laloux about an exciting project to bring Raspberry Pi labs to schools in rural West Africa.
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More Raspberry Pi labs in West Africa
Joe Herman’s Pi Film Capture project combines old projectors and a stepper motor with a Raspberry Pi and a Raspberry Pi Camera Module , to transform his grandfather’s 8- and 16-mm home movies into glorious digital films.
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Digitising film reels with Pi Film Capture
In July, winners of the first two Pioneers challenges came together at Google HQ at Kings Cross in London for the Pioneers Summer Camp. This event was a special day to celebrate their awesomeness, and to give them access to some really cool stuff. Pioneers: Google Summer Camp 2017 In July this year, winners of the first two Pioneers challenges came to Google HQ in London’s Kings Cross to meet, make and have an awesome time.
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Pioneers Summer Camp 2017
Physics! Particles! Statistical modelling! Quantum theory! How can non-scientists understand any of it? Well, students from Durham University are here to help you wrap your head around it all – and to our delight, they’re using the power of the Raspberry Pi to do it! At the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition , taking place in London from 4-9 July, the students are presenting a Pi-based experiment demonstrating the importance of statistics in their field of research. Modelling the invisible – Summer Science Exhibition 2017 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2017 features 22 exhibits of cutting-edge, hands-on UK science , along with special events and talks.
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Pi-powered hands-on statistical model at the Royal Society
I’d say I am a passable guitarist. Ever since I learnt about the existence of the Raspberry Pi in 2012, I’ve wondered how I could use one as a guitar effects unit. Unfortunately, I’m also quite lazy and have therefore done precisely nothing to make one.
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Making sweet, sweet music with pisound
In today’s post, I’m going to share the tales of three Jams: how and why they got started.
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A tale of three Raspberry Jams
TrustedReviews Best Raspberry Pi Projects: 10 sweet bakes to try today TrustedReviews Raspberry Pi Projects: The tastiest Raspberry Pi 3 and Pi Zero projects to start baking today. From giving the tech of yesteryear a modern spin to smartening up household appliances, there are few things credit card-sized motherboard the Raspberry Pi …
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Opensource.com How does the PocketCHIP compare to the Raspberry Pi ? Opensource.com When the Raspberry Pi hit the tech scene, it made a huge impact. It wasn't the first tiny computer, by any means—the Chumby, the PogoPlug, and other hackable systems on chips preceded it—but there hadn't been anything quite so intentionally open and …
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