When I first joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over a year ago now, one of my first assignments was to build a weather station around the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to our friends at Oracle (the large US database company), the Foundation received a grant not only to design and build a Raspberry Pi weather station for schools, but also to put together a whole education programme to go with it.
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Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools
Make a Programmable Irrigation Controller with a Raspberry Pi Lifehacker With all the day to day challenges that keep us busy, it can be hard to remember to water our plants. With a Raspberry Pi and a few other parts, you can program your own irrigation controller and make sure all your plants get the water they need …
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Here’s another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram Research. We’ve seen sous vide applications before – but we’ve never seen one that uses the Wolfram Language and Mathematica to describe elegant curves while it prepares your dinner. Thanks Allison, and thanks to Diego Zviovich, who came up with this project.
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Sous-vide cooking with the Wolfram Language
Geeky gadgets PiCE Water Resistant Raspberry Pi Case And Camera (video) Geeky gadgets A new Raspberry Pi Case has been created by Elson Designs in the UK called the PiCE, which has been design ed to provide a waterproof housing for your Raspberry Pi and camera module.
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Pato is a little green bird who Jorge Rancé found, injured, on the street in Barcelona, and rescued. He was in a bad way, with a broken leg and the feathery equivalent of a terrible hair day. Pato after a visit to the vet, his broken leg in plaster Jorge took Pato to the vet to be patched up, and took him home to recuperate in a large birdcage at his house
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Pato surveillance system
PiPlanter : The Raspberry Pi Automated Tomato Farm CrazyEngineers Ever thought of farm automation? Devon, from esologic.com loves tomato farming and his latest Raspberry Pi project allows for automation of the tomato farm. Well don't run your brains faster – because the system basically controls the water supply to …
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Geeky gadgets Water Cooled Raspberry Pi Case Geeky gadgets Hacker Phame has taken a low powered Raspberry Pi mini PC, which is available to purchase for around $35, and added a pimped up cooling system creating a water cooled Raspberry Pi mini computer.
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Ubergizmo Raspberry Pi Gets Water Cooling Solution Ubergizmo Raspberry Pi Gets Water Cooling Solution The Raspberry Pi is certainly one hot ticket item when it was first released, targeting hobbyists who want to build their very own computers without having to sell an arm and a leg. While this low-powered mini …
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Raspberry Pi Gets Water Cooling Solution – Ubergizmo