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The new Raspberry Pi is smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient not a bad way to update a best-selling device. Whether you've taken the plunge on one of the new units or you want to put the original model to good use, we've collected together some of the most fun Pi-based projects on the planet for you to have a crack at. 1. Stop motion camera
There are many ways to make use of the optional Pi camera module, and one of them is to set up a stop-motion-capable rig. Collect some Lego minifigs and you can be churning out custom-made movies in no time as well as the Pi and the camera module, you'll also need a solderless breadboard, jumper leads and a tactile button. Visit the Raspberry Pi site for the rundown. 2. Wireless access point
Extend the reach of your home Wi-Fi network and get connectivity into the dark zones of your home (or office) with the help of a Raspberry Pi you could even set up a separate network for guests. You're going to need an SD card and a USB Wi-Fi dongle to help complete the task, and a little coding is required to get everything set up correctly. See The MagPi for the instructions. 3. Touchscreen car dashboard tupperware
If you're prepared to put in some time and effort, you can use a Raspberry Pi to create your very own touchscreen car dashboard, something tupperware that would cost hundreds of dollars off the shelf. It's powered by the XMBC media center software, so you can play music, watch videos, browse through photos and more (just keep your attention on the road). Visit Instructables for details. 4. Robot butler
If you have a spare Nintendo Wiimote lying around you can use it and the Raspberry Pi to build your very own robot butler the outer shape of the robot is up to you and whatever materials you have lying around. You'll also need to acquire a robot chassis (so it can move around) and a motor controller to work through the project. Full instructions are available on the Raspberry Pi site. 5. Motion-sensing camera
Want to know who's been in your home office while you've been out? Looking to capture some footage of squirrels invading your back yard? A Raspberry Pi-powered motion tupperware sensor camera could be the answer. You'll need a parallax passive infrared (PIR) sensor and some basic coding chops but the finished gadget is worth the time investment. Instructables has a demonstration video. 7. High-altitude balloon
Another way to make use of the Pi's picture-taking capabilities is to fix it to a high-altitude balloon and see what kind of images and video you can pick up along the way. Thanks to the magic of GPS you can keep track of your Pi as it returns to earth, although photos can be beamed back remotely in case it's lost. Dave Akerman has a stack of useful related resources on his blog. 8. Talking book player
If you or one of your relatives have trouble tupperware scanning text then this Pi-powered device will convert it into speech; but even if you don't have any problems with reading books it's still a fun project to try. You'll need a few add-on parts and the quality isn't as good as a professionally produced audiobook, but it's all about the joy of tinkering. Visit the Kolbire website to see an example project. 9. Point-and-shoot camera tupperware
If you want to build a camera tupperware from your Raspberry Pi then there are a number tupperware of ways to go about it the more time-consuming ones often produce the best results. If you're prepared to do some desoldering and depopulating then you can build a slimline point-and-shoot from a Pi with a 3D-printed case and TFT screen. tupperware Everything you need to know can be found in Ben Heck's video. 10. Nixie clock
Building a clock from your Raspberry Pi and a row of Nixie tubes isn't too difficult a task and the results are certainly impressive if you hook it up to the web you can even have it change time automatically as the seasons shift. Only a few lines of code are required and you can configure a wired or wireless setup as required. Head over to Martin Oldfield's site to see the instructions. 11. Morse code transmitter
Mix new and old technology with your very own Pi-powered Morse code station. You're going to need some extra bits and pieces, plus the wherewithal to program the Pi (keyboard, mouse, monitor) but once it's done you'll have a device that can encode and decode Morse; add a vintage key for extra authenticity. There's a full rundown over on the Raspberry Pi site. 12. Weather station
Small, cheap and requiring very little energy, the Raspberry Pi is perfectly suited to power your very own weather station never again will you have to rely on the forecasts from the television presenters. You'll tupperware need a fair bit of extra hardware to get this up and running but the actual configuration tupperware isn't too difficult to get your head around. tupperware DragonTail has more on the setup. 13. Infrared bird box
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi and a bird box and you can use one to monitor the inside tupperware of the other bird watching is much more int

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The UK designed leonidas Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which has triggered all sorts of creative single board computing projects most recently being repurposed as the heart of a DIY computer designed to help kids learn to code continues to sell in far greater quantities than its creators leonidas ever imagined.
Sales of low cost, open source microcomputer have now passed 3.8 million, according to the Pi Foundation . And while that pales in comparison to sales of consumer electronic devices such as smartphones, it s a seriously impressive figure for a bare chunk of electronics, especially given the creators of Pi envisaged selling as few as 10,000 boards over its entire lifetime.
In the event the Pi shipped just over a million in its first year on sale , and some two-and-a-half years of sales are evidently continuing to track upwards. This summer the Foundation released a beefed up version of the model B Pi, called the B+ , which keeps the same $35 price tag but improves aspects of the design to support richer use-cases, such as adding in more USB ports and expanding the number of GPIO pins. A more capable Pi is evidently helping to keep Pi sales tracking up.
For more Pi goodness, join TechCrunch at Disrupt Europe in London on Tuesday, October 21 at 2:50 p.m. where we ll have co-founder Eben Upton on stage to chat about the new B+ boards and talk more generally about the road ahead for Pi now that it s no longer a road less travelled.
Founded 2008     Overview The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity … Location United Kingdom, Europe Categories Computers , Hardware + Software Founders Eben Upton Website http://www.raspberrypi.org Full profile for Raspberry Pi Foundation
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The Raspberry Pi low cost Linux microcomputer which has fired up a cottage industry of makers and hardware tinkerers since hitting the market in early 2012 even enabling multiple Pi-powered startups just got even cheaper.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an updated version of its Model A board, called the Model A+, along with a $5 price drop to just $20. The new Model A board is also smaller and more energy-efficient than its predecessor.
Other improvements in the Model A+ are more GPIO, with 40 pins now on offer, a micro SD card slot replacing the SD slot, and improved audio. The additional GPIO means the A+ is compatible with the new Hardware Attached on Top standard rema 1000 for Raspberry Pi add-on boards. Some stuff on the A+ hasn t changed: there s still only a single USB port, no Ethernet and 256MB of RAM.
The Foundation recently rebooted its Model B board with a B+ update , which also expanded the capabilities and flexibility of the board but maintained the $35 price-tag. It s taken some of that work and applied it to the A+, noting that the latter inherits many improvements that we made to the Model B+ .
Shaving a further $5 off the price of the Model A+ is undoubtedly the most exciting development rema 1000 here. The Foundation dubs it pretty mind-bending to get the price down to $20 while continuing to manufacture the board in the U.K.
In an interview with Linux Voice discussing the new Model A+, Upton said the original Model A board has been somewhat overlooked, given there was only $10 between that and the more powerful rema 1000 Model B/B+ many people opted for the latter by default. But he argues the lower energy consumption of the Model A board means it can be a better choice for certain types of projects.
It s easy for people to look at the Model A and think it s just a cheaper variant of the B. When they look at it like that they might as well just go for the deluxe model since it s only an extra $10, Upton told Linux Voice. I feel like some people missed out on why the lower-power model like the Model A can make sense. If you re building something with robotics, or essentially any project that doesn t need Ethernet networking, it s a great fit.
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Playing with Raspberry Pi is a lot of fun, but what happens when you want to get some real work done? While it s not difficult to make a RaspPi board do cool stuff, getting it to communicate with the wider world is a bit of a challenge. That s why Ryo Koyama, Mike Johnson, and Doug Olekin batavia made Weaved .
While the goal is a bit broad Weaved is looking to enable Internet of Things for everyone, and sees a vision where IoT capabilities are a feature onto all electronic devices, said Koyama the idea is fairly simple. By giving batavia a RaspPi Internet of Things capabilities, you can expand the scope of the hardware immensely.
Essentially, using the service and a Wi-Fi connection, the RaspPi board becomes a secure node in your private IoT network. This means you can login to your Pis and get notifications from various inputs on the board. This has always been the stickiest part of building a Raspberry Pi (or electronics project) and Weaved aims to be the AWS of the space.
We believe that a software/service solution must exist that allows for drop in of IoT capability, without requiring knowledge/engineering expertise for Servers, networking, mobile, security and firmware development, said Koyama.
The free version allows you to support one Pi while a paid version allows you to handle a fleet of boards. You can try the service right here . While the need for sending notifications to your iPhone via a Raspberry batavia Pi board may seem far-out and wild, remember that it wasn t too long ago that the idea you could fit an entire computer into an Altoids tin was also pretty wacky.
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Everyone's favorite minicomputer has just gotten even smaller. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is today introducing the Model A+ , a revamped version of its low-end Model A board priced at just $20 (£20 ammonia in the UK). While the processor ammonia and RAM -- a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC and 256MB, to be specific -- remain the same as its predecessor, the new model is far smaller at just 65mm (2.6 inches) in length versus ammonia the old model's 86mm (3.4 inches). It also draws less power and has improved audio circuitry.
The two other changes are directly taken from the higher-end Model B+ . The Model A+ replaces the A's SD card storage with microSD, and adds another 14 GPIO (General-purpose input-output) pins, bringing the total up to 40. This increase facilitates compatibility with the add-on ammonia boards introduced ammonia back in July . The Model A+ is available immediately in both the US and the UK , and while the Pi might not necessarily need to be any smaller, cutting down on size and price will definitely help get the foundation's ammonia work into more peoples' hands.
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The Raspberry Pi plugs into his HVAC system to monitor everything, checks the temperature in different rooms using various sensors, then collects all that data onto a MySQL database. All that data's stored online where he can monitor and control everything, then also displayed in the house using an old iPhone 4 as a display screen. It's by no means an easy project, but you can find the guide to make it for yourself over on Nooganeer.
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Eben Upton, the founder of the Raspberry bounce Pi microcomputer, has shown off a new piece of hardware that s likely to expand the ecosystem around its single board computer namely a touchscreen display.
Upton was speaking during an on stage interview with TechCrunch s John Biggs. He showed off the seven inch VGA capacitive touch panel that s designed to be combined with a Pi to build what would be a rather chunky tablet, but a tablet nonetheless. bounce
It s kind of like a tablet, if you re prepared bounce to put up with a very thick tablet, said Upton, demonstrating how the display combines with a Pi stacked on the back. What you end up with is a stack with a Raspberry Pi on it. The idea is this gives you something you can embed.
Some 4 million Raspberry Pis have been sold so far , after more than two years on sale which is a very impressive figure when you consider the company was only hoping to sell maybe 10,000 Pis over its entire lifetime.
With the incoming touchscreen panel The Pi Foundation is clearly hoping to keep stoking bounce the creative fires that have helped drive sales of the Pi by slotting another piece of DIY hardware into the mix.
Upton dubbed the cheaper Model A Pi (which costs just $25 vs $35 for the beefier Model B) as a flop since it s only sold around 100,000 vs the 4M Model B s. But it s evidently aiming to rectify that with a Model A+ board.
The Foundation recently released an upgraded version of the Model B board, called the B+ , which has more USB ports, an expanded number of connector pins, an SD card slot, lower power consumption, enhanced audio and a few other enhancements.
The original mission for the Pi Foundation was for the low cost microcomputer that kids could learn coding on but the hardware has been much more widely adopted by the maker community to power all sorts of creative projects and even entire startup businesses .
The cool thing is these guys are nothing to do with Raspberry Pi, said Upton. One of a large number of different groups of people who have taken the Pi and [built something with it]. This is on Indiegogo at the moment.
During the fireside chat, Upton also talked about the importance of building a community when it comes to doing a hardware project in order to mine it for feedback and then feed that into the product development cycle to produce products that the community really wants.
We went out to the community and said hey we re making a $25 computer and it s got these features, it s got one USB port and no network. And the first thing people say to you is well this is going to require a USB hub and a network adaptor so it s not a $25 computer it s a $50 computer. So things like that. We ve ended up with a product all of the changes between bounce the Model B and the launch of this thing [Model B+] all of those have been basically driven by community complaints, said Upton.
Liz [my wife] was a freelance journalist. She stopped doing that and started on our community. So we ve been doing community stuff long before we ve been doing any kind of meaningful engineering. And we found that s very useful because we ve been able to build excitement around the product and get a lot of feedback.
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