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Great news! Tickets for the Birthday CamJam, which takes place on 2nd March at the Computer Laboratory in West Cambridge, are now available. There will be Talks, Show and Tell, Workshops and a Marketplace in the biggest event CamJam has…
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A friend of mine volunteers for a non-profit organization called Models for Heroes which aims to give Armed Forces veterans a focus for their free time by helping them get into scale modelling. He also builds his own scale models…
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The post Star Trek Voyager sound box for a scale model using a Raspberry Pi Zero and Pimoroni magic! appeared first on Raspberry Pi Pod and micro:bit base.
I was up at an ungodly hour this morning when I noticed a tweet from Unexpected Maker showing a screengrab of a mailing received from Element 14/Avnet which showed some details of the brand new Raspberry Pi 5. Despite promising…
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Introduction Hi everyone. I recently took part in an episode of The Pi Cast from Tom’s Hardware during which I presented my latest project: a Mini (or Tiny!) Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck. You can see the full episode below. Of particular…
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Hi everyone. It’s been a little while! I’ve been horribly busy with various things, including work, so it’s been difficult to keep up with blogging. I have been posting Pi stuff over on Twitter/X (how I hate that new name!)…
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Pi Wars is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals…
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After several years, populated by coughs and wheezes and dreadful diseases, CamJam is back, and what a wonderful event it was! Myself and Tim Richardson have happily handed over the reigns to Brian Corteil, someone we’ve known for many years,…
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The post The Return of Cambridge Raspberry Jam – 22nd April 2023 at Makespace! – A review appeared first on Raspberry Pi Pod and micro:bit base.
Today, we have on the review workbench (well… kitchen table) the Makeblock Ultimate 2.0 robotics kit. I was sent this kit for free from the manufacturers, but they have not vetted or approved this review, so it will be an…
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Nicole over at Elecrow got in touch with me about a new robotics kit they’ve been developing called the CrowBot BOLT. I agreed to review the product and give my honest opinion. TL;DR A really well thought-out, and well-produced, kit…
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All about the calendar Arriving just in time for Christmas, The Pi Hut’s Maker Advent Calendar contains all sorts of maker-y goodness to enhance the Festive season. The Calendar comes as a large box with a cardboard wrapper and will…
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I received this kit for free from Elecrow in China in exchange for an impartial review. TL;DR – an amazing kit for the money, but the tutorials could use some attention. The contents This kit is large and full of good…
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The post Elecrow Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit review – lots of goodies! appeared first on Raspberry Pi Pod and micro:bit base.
I decided recently to set up a string of temperature sensors around our house to work out the temperature profile of different rooms. With the recent release of the Pico W, I realised that I could do this quite simply,…
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The post Use Adafruit IO with a Raspberry Pi Pico W to create IoT dashboards using MQTT appeared first on Raspberry Pi Pod and micro:bit base.
Anvil is a web app builder website that has just launched a new “IoT Toolkit” for the Raspberry Pi Pico W called the Pico Uplink. By downloading their UF2 image (which is MicroPython-based), you will be able to send data…
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Following various examples, I’ve created a MicroPython script that does the following: Create an access point on the Raspberry Pi Pico W. Create a web server. Serve a simple page on that web server. Toggle/flash the on-board LED when that…
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Raspberry Pi has today launched the Raspberry Pi Pico W (see the official announcement here). This uses the same RP2040 chip as the regular Pico but has wi-fi built into it! This is going to get eaten up by the…
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Fans of the Raspberry Pi Zero can today get excited about a new Raspberry Pi product – the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. TL;DR – it’s got the Pi 3B processor, 512MB of RAM and is a lot speedier than the…
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Last in my mailbag of Cytron Technologies goodies, this is the Maker Pi RP2040. It has clearly been designed to get you going with your robotics journey and to give you the ability to add all sorts of inputs and…
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Also in my review box from Cytron (along with yesterday’s Edu:Bit) was a Maker Pi Pico. This is a board that houses a Raspberry Pi Pico and measures approximately 95mm x 70mm. The version I’ve got is the ordinary Maker…
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SC Lim of Cytron Technologies was kind enough to send me a review sample of their Edu:Bit, which is based around the micro:bit. Originally a successfully-funded Kickstarter, the Edu:Bit is, primarily, a large, red circuit board which houses a micro:bit…
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In 2016, Edinburgh-based Robotical introduced their robotic platform, Marty the Robot. Successfully funded through a Crowdfunding campaign, the robot has now been updated to version 2, via another successful campaign, and is now available to buy from their online shop.…
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I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
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Miguel Grinberg has written a really great beginners’ tutorial to the world of USB HID using the Raspberry Pi Pico. For this project, he adds a Pico to a breadboard then hooks up a simple momentary button. Pressing the button…
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At the moment, I am waiting for the second version of my PCB for the PicoPicorder. In a departure from my regular making, I decided to buy a Feather S2 from Pimoroni. This is a Feather-format board with built-in WiFI…
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Graeme over at Raspberry Connect has created this nifty little project using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a small e-ink display from SeeedStudio. Using an open API, he grabs the position of the ISS and then plots it as…
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Spain-based Manu, who you can find on Twitter, needed to help his 96-year old grandmother communicate with her grandchildren. She is hard-of-hearing and not very tech-savvy, so having her use a mobile phone is a bit of a non-starter. To…
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