Autor: Maria Richter
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These loo rolls formed a choir
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave all of y’all been hoarding toilet roll over recent weeks in an inexplicable response to the global pandemic, or is that just a quirk here in the UK? Well, the most inventive use of the essential household item we’ve ever seen is this musical project by Max Björverud. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf6pai97n2o] Ahh,…
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Build low-power, clock-controlled devices
Reading Time: 7 minutesDo you want to make a sensor with a battery life you can measure in days rather than hours? Even if it contains a (relatively!) power-hungry device like a Raspberry Pi? By cunning use of a real-time clock module, you can make something that wakes up, does its thing, and then goes…
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University of Toronto supports COVID-19 patient monitoring with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesA member of the Raspberry Pi community in Ontario, Canada spotted this story from the University of Toronto on CBC News. Engineers have created a device that enables healthcare workers to monitor COVID-19 patients continuously without the need to enter their hospital rooms. Continuous, remote monitoring Up-to-date information can be checked from any…
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Code a homage to Lunar Lander | Wireframe #37
Reading Time: 4 minutesShoot for the moon in our Python version of the Atari hit, Lunar Lander. Mark Vanstone has the code. Atari’s cabinet featured a thrust control, two buttons for rotating, and an abort button in case it all went horribly wrong. Lunar Lander First released in 1979 by Atari, Lunar Lander was based…
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Track your cat’s activity with a homemade speedometer
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirstly, hamster wheels for cats are (still) a thing. Secondly, Bengal cats run far. And Shawn Nunley on reddit is the latest to hit on this solution for kitty exercise and bonus cat stats. Here is the wheel itself. That part was shop-bought. (Apparently it’s a ZiggyDoo Ferris Cat Wheel.) Smol kitty…
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Create your own home office work status light with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re working from home and you have children, you’re probably finding it all pretty demanding at the moment. Spreadsheets and multiple tabs and concentrating aren’t nearly so manageable without the dedicated workspace you have at the office and with, instead, small people vying relentlessly for your attention. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY] And that’s…
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Resurrecting a vintage microwave sensor with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s one of those lovely “old tech new spec” projects, courtesy of hackster.io pro Martin Mander. After finding a vintage Apollo microwave detector at a car boot sale, and realising the display hole in the top was roughly the same size as a small Adafruit screen, he saw the potential to breath…
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Special offer for magazine readers
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou don’t need me to tell you about the unprecedented situation that the world is facing at the moment. We’re all in the same boat, so I won’t say anything about it other than I hope you stay safe and take care of yourself and your loved ones. The other thing I…
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Printing at home from your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday I wrote about working from home with your Raspberry Pi, and talked about things like how to connect to your company VPN, and how to get video conferencing up and working. However, one thing I didn’t talk about – and that many of you have asked for some guidance on –…
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Working from home with your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 11 minutesRaspberry Pi 4 is more than powerful enough to serve as replacement desktop computer while you’re working from home. Or as a secondary desktop to help you out while you’re doing other things, such video conferencing, on your main computer. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B If you’re pulling your Raspberry Pi out…
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Raspberry Pi puts the heart back in mid-noughties nostalgia tech
Reading Time: 2 minutesIs it still the Easter holidays? Can anyone tell? Does it matter, when we have nostalgic tech bunny pets to share with you? These little bunnies can now do much more than when they first appeared. But they’re still incredibly cute – just look at that little lopsided-ear thing they do. [embedded…
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This clock really, really doesn’t want to tell you the time
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat’s worse than a clock that doesn’t work? One that makes an “unbearably loud screeching noise” every minute of every day is a strong contender. That was the aural nightmare facing YouTuber Burke McCabe. But rather than just fix the problem, he decided, in true Raspberry Pi community fashion, to go one…
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Digital Making at Home: Make us laugh!
Reading Time: 3 minutesWelcome back for another exciting week of Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! Get ready to keep the coding going, and if you’re joining us for the first time, we’re so thrilled to have you! All of the stories you sent us from across the world last week were…
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Crunch your way through morning meetings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, so, we’re not really here. It is a public holiday in the UK and we are all between three and seventeen pounds of Easter chocolate and hot cross buns deep. Our teeth hurt. Anyway, we’re not sure what possessed our cute friends over at Deep Local to do this, but…
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Make a Side Pocket-esque pool game | Wireframe #36
Reading Time: 7 minutesRecreate the arcade pool action of Data East’s Side Pocket. Raspberry Pi’s own Mac Bowley has the code. In the original Side Pocket, the dotted line helped the player line up shots, while additional functions on the UI showed where and how hard you were striking the cue ball. Created by Data…
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Digital making at home: a guide for parents
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog post is for parents. Specifically, it’s for parents who want to help their kids get into making things with technology but don’t know where to start. Lots of us at the Raspberry Pi Foundation are parents too, and right now we’re also all trying to figure out how to keep…
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Five years of Raspberry Pi clusters
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this guest blog post, OpenFaaS founder and Raspberry Pi super-builder Alex Ellis walks us down a five-year-long memory lane explaining how things have changed for cluster users. I’ve been writing about running Docker on Raspberry Pi for five years now and things have got a lot easier than when I started…
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Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium – recap of our online event
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Wednesday, we hosted the first-ever Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium online. Research in computing education, particularly in school and for young people, is a young field compared to maths and science education, and we do not have much in terms of theoretical foundations. It is not a field that has received…
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Digital Making at Home: Storytelling with code
Reading Time: 3 minutesWelcome back to Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! If you’re joining us for the first time this week, welcome: you’re now part of a global movement with other young digital makers from all over the world. You’re in great company, friend! You all CRUSHED making your own games…
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Instaclock | The Magpi 92
Reading Time: 4 minutesDesigned to celebrate a new home, Instaclock uses two Raspberry Pi computers to great visual effect. Rosie Hattersley introduces maker Riccardo Cereser’s eyecatching build in issue #92 of The MagPi, out now. There is nothing like a deadline to focus the mind! Copenhagen-based illustrator and UX designer Riccardo Cereser was about to…
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How the Raspberry Pi Foundation is responding to the novel coronavirus (part 2)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s been a couple of weeks since I posted a blog about how the Raspberry Pi Foundation was responding to the novel coronavirus, and I thought it would be useful to share an update. Writing this has helped me reflect on just how much has changed in such a short space of…
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El Carrillon | The MagPi 92
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost Raspberry Pi projects we feature debut privately and with little fanfare – at least until they’re shared by us. The El Carrillon project, however, could hardly have made a more public entrance. In September 2019 it was a focal point of Argentina’s 49th annual Fiesta Nacional de la Flor (National Flower…
