In a Manhattan gallery, there is an art installation that uses a Raspberry Pi to control the lights, nourishing an underground field of lavender. The twist: the Pi syncs the intensity of the lights to the activity of a dozen or so Twitter accounts belonging to media personalities and members of the US government
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Tweetponic lavender: nourishing nature with the Twitter API
The INQUIRER IoT firm uses a Raspberry Pi to make Nuttall's head explode The INQUIRER The company will be down at Sandbox on Brick Lane this Saturday with an experiment combining the power of Twitter, Raspberry Pi and its own Smart Home tech, MiHome. The four main political leaders, Maybot, Beardie, Baldy and Paul Daniels will be there ..
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IoT firm uses a Raspberry Pi to make Nuttall’s head explode – The INQUIRER
We hope you’re as excited as we are about the launch of the second Pioneers challenge! While you form your teams and start thinking up ways to Make it Outdoors with tech, we’ve been thinking of different ways for you to come together to complete the challenge.
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Pioneers events: what’s your jam?
Have you ever fancied building a Raspberry Pi photo booth?
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The All-Seeing Pi: a Raspberry Pi photo booth
Opensource.com Do you own a Raspberry Pi ? | Opensource.com Opensource.com Jen Wike Huger – Jen Wike Huger is the Content Manager for Opensource.com.
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Do you own a Raspberry Pi? | Opensource.com – Opensource.com
Tuesday saw the launch of our brand-new $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W, the next step in the evolution of our tiniest computer, now equipped with wireless LAN and Bluetooth. Steve Anderson on Twitter looks around house* “I’ve got too many SBCs
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TEN BUCKS! TEN FREAKIN’ BUCKS! Zero W aftermath
The Cambridge office must have been very quiet last week, as staff from across the Raspberry Pi Foundation exhibited at the Bett Show 2017 . Avid readers will note that at the UK’s largest educational technology event, held in London across four days, we tend to go all out . This year was no exception, as we had lots to share with you! Hello World It was hugely exciting to help launch Hello World , our latest joint publication with Computing At School (CAS), part of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT , and sponsored by BT .
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Bringing Digital Making to the Bett Show 2017
Hackaday NixieBot Films Your Tweets Hackaday A Raspberry – Pi running Twython for Twitter communications, GrafixMagick for GIF creation, Picamera for taking pictures and GPIO libraries for controlling the display. The software to run all of this is hosted on his GitHub repository with some basic …
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NixieBot Films Your Tweets – Hackaday
“The project idea came from this tongue-in-cheek Twitter post. But hey, why not try to make one? I read somewhere that the world needs more ridiculous smart devices”. These are the words of Eric Tsai , a maker of connected devices and home automation, on his website etsai.net .
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Internet of Things Pregnancy Test
Hello, Rachel here, with a story that’s best told through images – warning, LOTS of photos ahead! When I explain how I started working at Raspberry Pi, it ends up being a pretty long story, with lots of interests that became jobs, unexpected opportunities and chance meetings. At the time it didn’t seem very connected – I just followed what I was interested in at the time, found like-minded people, and tried to share what I love with new people too. Before I joined Raspberry Pi as Artist in Residence in 2013, I ran a small arts venue focused on celluloid film with a darkroom and film lab – I wanted everyone to try shooting and developing their own photos! I’ve now been at the Raspberry Pi Foundation for three years and I’ve had the chance to meet loads of people involved in digital making, from lots of different backgrounds: computer science professionals, teachers, engineers, design agencies, musicians, artists, tinkerers, makers
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