Pi Wars – The TractorBot Story
A team from Ipswich Makerspace took their robot ‘TractorBot’ to Pi Wars 2014 in Cambridge. This is the story of how they got on.
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Raspberry Pi B+ and Altoids
Just in case you have not noticed the hype that is all over our corner of the internet, there is a new version of the Raspberry Pi, called the “B+”. I won’t bother going into detail about its features, that’s covered very well by many others including Adafruit, Gordon Henderson, Carrie-Ann Philbin and, of course, …
Compute Module has arrived
This is exciting. A Raspberry Pi Compute Module Development Kit (a.k.a “Model C”) arrived in the post today. At last I have a “Raspberry Pi” with a decent number of GPIO pins. Just as when the Original Pi launched, there is not much information or third-party support yet. In particular, I’d love to see a …
MoPi: mobile and flexible powers supply for Raspberry Pi
Over the last few days I have been reading quite a bit about the MoPi: Mobile and 24/7 Power for the Raspberry Pi. I have had an email conversation with Hamish Cunningham and seen it mentioned in several places. The Kickstarter campaign for this clever little board is coming to an end, so I thought …
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Cambridge Raspberry Jam
Just a quick post today to report that I want along to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam today. Many thanks to Michael Horne for arranging it! This was my first “jam”, so I was not sure what to expect. It turned out to be a kind of one-day conference, with a sequence of presentations separated by …
A pair of new goodies
I’m still struggling to find time to write here, but I really am pretty excited about two new arrivals I picked up today. It’s fair to say that the first has been getting a lot of press recently: The second is more of a rarity. Following my comments a few months ago, and despite my …