Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi news ticker

Posted on December 21, 2015 by blogmywiki

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 and feedparser (‘sudo pip install … Continue reading →

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SenseHAT weather forecaster

Posted on December 20, 2015 by blogmywiki

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. You’ll also need to install feedparser – … Continue reading →

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RaspberryPi dice project

Posted on December 20, 2015 by blogmywiki

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 between 1 and 6 and … Continue reading →

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Spirit level for SenseHAT

Posted on December 19, 2015 by blogmywiki

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 have the added … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi traffic light project, part 2

Posted on October 19, 2015 by blogmywiki

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. This was made really … Continue reading →

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