We get to read about and see an abundance of project builds through online channels, but we especially love when we get the opportunity to meet the makers themselves as they share their projects first-hand. That’s why an event like Maker Faire continues to be so successful. It provides a platform and a dedicated space, if only for a weekend, for makers and tinkerers alike to come together and share with other enthusiasts.
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Inspired Raspberry Pi Projects at Maker Faire
This is a great beginner’s project from Red Reef Digital for those new to Node-RED . Node-RED is IBM’s browser-based, visual tool – looking just like a flow chart – for IoT programming. It seemed to come out of nowhere a couple of years ago, but it’s very easy to get your head around, and we’ve seen some great stuff done with it. (Winner?
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Ring a bell with Node-RED and Twitter
Making computing accessible is a major part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission. Our low-cost, high-performance computer is just one way that we achieve that. With our Picademy program, we also train teachers so that more young people can learn about computers and how to make things with them
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BetaNews You'll have two chances to buy a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero on Wednesday BetaNews On Wednesday 24 February, The Pi Hut is going to start selling a fresh batch of Pi Zero stock, and you'll have not one, but two chances to get your hands on the desirable little piece of kit. The Pi Hut launched a poll on Twitter to find out when …
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Electronics Weekly (blog) Pi Zero is the ultimate Raspberry Pi Electronics Weekly (blog) To judge by the twitter social media website, the maker community around the world has gone crazy about it. It is possible to find a £4 price tag for a basic module; how basic is difficult to discern.
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Pi Zero is the ultimate Raspberry Pi – Electronics Weekly (blog)
Hackaday Hackaday Prize Entry: Twitter Goes To The Dogs With Raspberry Pi Hack Hackaday He did this using a Raspberry Pi , which is set to record sound above a certain volume. With the system sitting by [Oliver's] favorite window, this records his barks. The recordings are then analyzed using PyAudioAnalysis, a library that analyzes sounds ..
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Twitter Goes To The Dogs With Raspberry Pi Hack – Hackaday
Henry Conklin’s dog, Oliver, is one of those very vocal dogs who likes to try to let you know what he’s thinking. By barking. A lot.
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Twitter for dogs
Raspberry Pi makes history as sales hit five million Inquirer THE RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION has announced that its pint-sized computer has now sold a whopping five million units. The announcement came via Twitter, where the official Raspberry Pi account boasted that the five million milestone makes it the
Meet Miguel Wattson (geddit?), the most piscine member of the Raspberry Pi community. Miguel is an electric eel who lives in a tank at the Tennessee Aquarium; and his keepers, with some help from some computer science interns, have decided to use Miguel’s tendency to generate electricity to do some showboating. Bzzzzt.
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Social animals: electric eel tweets with a Pi
Regular readers will remember that we featured Andy Proctor’s delivery lorry – hacked with a Raspberry Pi to become an Internet of Things delivery Andy lorry – back at the start of December . The BBC found out about him too, and he’s featuring on the front page of their news site today, with a really nice little video segment about what he’s been doing. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
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Hacking the haulage industry