2 cool RaspberryPi projects
Here are two insanely cool Raspberry Pi projects I spotted this week. First up, turn a rotary dial phone into an MP3 player. This seems really simple and do-able. James West points out that some...
View ArticleA different kind of phone hacking
I previously mentioned this awesome project to rip out the innards of an old rotary dial phone, and stuffing a Raspberry Pi inside which plays a different MP3 file out of the earpiece each time you...
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Raspberry Pi 2 hands-on
We’re now a FOUR Pi household. One Raspberry Pi is our wireless print server, enabling us to use an old cheap laser printer to print from Macs, Raspberry Pis, iPhones and iPads; another is our kitchen...
View ArticleUpdated list of BBC network radio URLs
The BBC has changed the way it streams a lot of its radio stations on the internet. You can read more about the changes on the BBC Blog. One upshot of this was that none of my many RaspberryPi internet...
View ArticleHeadless Raspberry Pi broadband wifi switch problem sorted
This is probably blindingly obvious, but I was quite pleased with this solution… We just switched broadband providers and I got home to find the provider changed, new wifi router installed and the old...
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Fip has moved
As you may know, I love making little internet radios from Raspberry Pi computers – mostly so I can listen to the wonderful French radio station Fip. Fip plays a mixture of jazz, left-field rock and...
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Keeping physical computing simple
I love Scratch. I think it’s actually under-rated as a way of teaching computing, even in secondary schools (KS3). I remember a long time ago someone on the BBC ‘Computer Programme’ defending BASIC...
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First physical computing project with Python on Raspberry Pi
I’m really excited about a Python library called GPIO Zero. This makes it very easy to use the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins to do some physical computing in the Python programming language. The GPIO pins...
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Raspberry Pi traffic light project, part 2
In the first part of this project, we made some traffic lights out of LEDs attached to a Raspberry Pi computer, and we wrote code to make them light in sequence using the Python programming language....
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Spirit level for SenseHAT
I just got myself an early Christmas present – a SenseHAT for the RaspberryPi. This is the same gizmo Tim Peake will be using on the ISS to run AstroPi experiments designed by school children, so I...
View ArticleRaspberryPi dice project
Here’s a simple dice (ok, die) project for the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT – it senses a shake by measuring the G-force on the accelerometer. If the G-force goes above 1.4, it generates a random number...
View ArticleSenseHAT weather forecaster
Here’s a really simple scrolling weather forecast for the RaspberryPi SenseHAT. It uses the BBC Weather RSS feed, so you would replace the postcode (‘bs1′) with your own to get your local forecast....
View ArticleRaspberry Pi news ticker
Here’s an updated version of my weather ticker – this one gives you the BBC news headlines too! It uses a SenseHAT plug-in board atop a RaspberryPi – no soldering required, just install the SenseHAT...
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Pimoroni Flotilla – first impressions
Hot on the heels of my official Raspberry Pi SenseHAT, Mr Postman brought me the Pimoroni Flotilla. I got this early because I backed it on Kickstarter, ooh quite a long time ago now, and I’d almost...
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SenseHAT paint
Here’s a very simple ‘paint’ project for the RaspberryPi SenseHAT. I was trying to draw icons for a graphical weather project, and I felt the need of some kind of paint program that would allow me to...
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BETT 2016 Review
My first visit to BETT, and although I knew it was large, I wasn’t quite prepared for the sheer scale and sensory overload. I did, however, manage to come away with some very interesting ideas for...
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Updated URLs for your internet radio
I’ve just been doing my annual maintenance on my kitchen radio – it’s an old RaspberryPi with a lovely Pimoroni Displayotron3000, and it runs their lovely radio script. (You configure it by editing...
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Logging classroom temperature on a Raspberry Pi
Today I logged the temperature in our ICT room as part of a wider Y7 project on data handling, spreadsheets and climate change. We’re taking real historical weather data, analysing it in Excel and...
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Little Box of Fip
I’ve made many Raspberry Pi internet radios in the past – here’s how to make the simplest one possible, making use of an ancient RaspberryPi 1B that was lying neglected at the back of the drawer. This...
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RaspberryPi SenseHAT live pressure graphs
UPDATE: Now plotting air pressure, temperature AND humidity – see end of this post! I’ve been playing with the RaspberryPi SenseHAT to see how easy it would be to code some live data logging of...
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