Raspberry Pi

How neat is this? An interactive, Net-connected camera based on the Raspberry Pi, by courtesy of an additional touchscreen and a camera board. It’s the DIY Wi-Fi Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Camera, by AdaFruit. The screen is the Adafruit PiTFT, a 2.8″ touchscreen display for the Pi, which means you can swipe through the camera settings. The camera board is the ...

More details are emerging about the Raspberry Pi audio card that is designed by Edinburgh sound-specialists Wolfson, writes Steve Bush. The Pi add-on, aimed at audiophiles who want an increase in sound quality over Raspberry Pi’s existing education-grade audio interfaces – is capable of 24bit 96kHz audio playback. It will cost £24.01 and be available from two Farnell-owned distributors: Element14 in Europe, and ...

Maybe a true Gadget Master knows every component on a Raspberry Pi board? Maybe. I’m not talking about the HDMI connector or the P2 audio plug, but what about the linear regulator or the ultra low dropout regulator?… Check out this resource, the RaspMap on http://raspmap.tsar.in, which attempts to document the details. Maybe a godsend for teachers, I imagine, being ...

Music hack of the decade? That’s the title bestowed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation on this lovely piece of cleverness. It comes from the Way Out West Hackathon 2013 and involves the Pixelfolders party hack team creating a pan flute-based game… They’ve written in detail about their work. For example, the flute controller involved Python running on a RaspberryPi, listening ...

Always happy to flag the latest issue of  The MagPi, the magazine devoted to all things Raspberry Pi. The latest issue, for February, is number 20 and its available for free download. Articles include Project Curacao and the production of timed photos, how to create a bootable Linux SD card which can load within 10 seconds, Quadcopter control, part two of an ...

A Raspberry Pi in a car dashboard? The panelling and labelling may appear basic, but it’s impressive work. Check out the work of this ingenious Gadget Master, Sentcool. What was involved? A Raspberry PI (Model B Revision 2 – important for GPIO pin locations and hardware specifications), a “standard Car display from China” with two 2 video-in ports, an audio ...

Here’s a new book that may be of interest to Gadget Masters – Raspberry Pi Projects, written by Andrew Robinson (who wrote the Raspberry Pi Hardware Projects books) and Mike Cook (who wrote Raspberry Pi Projects For Dummies among others). The paperback (and e-book) is priced at £14.99. According to Wiley, the publisher: Containing 16 practical projects this fun and informative resource ...

We’ve written about the PiFace before – the Raspberry Pi plug-in I/O module – but here’s to flag the new PiFace Control & Display, which lets you use and control your Pi without a keyboard, mouse and monitor. Priced at £21, from Farnell element14, the Control and Display module uses its own on-board buttons and a navigation wheel to control ...

We can see from our web traffic stats that Raspberry Pi audio is a very popular topic. See, for example Getting Hi-Fi sound from Raspberry Pi Well, I meant to highlight this one before, RaspyFi 1.0 is out. Basically, it aims to turn the Raspberry Pi into an audiophile audio source, and you can control it with your mobile, PC ...

There could be a new single-box computer out there if this Raspberry Pi project on Kickstarter comes through. Folks at a company called GeekRoo had the idea of fitting all the messy bits needed to run a Raspberry Pi, including the Pi and lots more, into one neat box. The result is a mini-ITX-compatible PCB that will go into a ...