Pi NoIR filmed by RasPiCamcorder at Raspberry Pi HQ

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Oct 292013
 
Pi NoIR filmed by RasPiCamcorder at Raspberry Pi HQ

While I was at the Raspberry Pi HQ in Cambridge last week, I thought it would be fun to shoot a little video of the new Pi NoIR camera using my RasPiCamcorder and some close-up lenses. It seemed like an unmissable opportunity. It’s a rather short video, but you should see some people you’ll recognise in it. I also tacked onto the end a quick comparison of daylight use of the Pi NoIR and RasPiCam. This shows why Sunny were a bit reluctant to release a version with no IR filter in case people tried […more…]

PiNoIR – what’s it for? Comparison of RasPiCam and Pi NoIR output in daylight

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Oct 272013
 
PiNoIR - what's it for? Comparison of RasPiCam and Pi NoIR output in daylight

The PiNoIR Raspberry Pi camera without infra-red filter is about to hit the streets. It looks like the first purchased units have shipped already. Matt “Raspberry Pi Spy” Hawkins has got one he bought from RS. I’m not quite sure what happened there, since the product isn’t officially launched yet. But no doubt others will have them soon enough. Needless to say, before it even officially hits the streets, people are arguing about what it is, what it isn’t and how the Raspberry Pi Foundation should and shouldn’t be referring to it. (What a pedantic, […more…]

Pi Noir – macro photos of the new Raspberry Pi camera board

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Oct 262013
 
Pi Noir - macro photos of the new Raspberry Pi camera board

I went to visit the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge on Friday. It was really nice to finally meet Liz and the ever-growing team. We exchanged “black boards”. I gave them samples of some prototypes I’ve been working on, and they gave me one of the new Pi NoIR camera boards with “No IR” filter. I tried it out with John (who’s been working with Gordon on solving the USB issues). It works exactly the same way as the green PiCam. The only difference is that, because there’s no infra-red filter, daytime colours look a […more…]

Pi Supply – ATX style power switch for Raspberry Pi – Review

 Electronics, raspberry pi, Raspberry Pi Hardware, Review  27 Responses »
Oct 142013
 
Pi Supply - ATX style power switch for Raspberry Pi - Review

Pi Supply is an external power switch for your Raspberry Pi. I have to be scrupulously honest here and say that, when I first heard about it, I thought “well that solves a problem I haven’t got”. But in the Raspberry Pi forums, quite a lot of people complained about not having a power switch. It’s never been an issue for me. I don’t find unplugging a micro USB cable all that hard. I’ve never broken the capacitor off the Pi (although I have broken a couple of SD card slots and fried a couple […more…]

Sonic Pi – flight of the Bumblebee

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Oct 072013
 
Sonic Pi - flight of the Bumblebee

I watched one of Carrie-Anne Philbin’s Geek Gurl Diaries videos yesterday about the newly released Sonic Pi application. Sonic Pi is a clever way of introducing programming concepts through making music. It looked like fun, so I had to have a play straight away. I have a ‘musical past’, so this was rather irresistable. For some time I’ve been harbouring an urge to make a solenoid-powered glockenspiel play Rimsky-Korsakoff’s “Flight of the Bumblebee”, which is an amazing piece because it’s so fast. Solenoids are costly, software isn’t But that’s a really expensive project (solenoids + […more…]

MotorPiTX build and testing with photos

 Electronics, Input and Output, python programming, raspberry pi, Raspberry Pi Hardware, Review  16 Responses »
Sep 302013
 
MotorPiTX build and testing with photos

On Saturday I decided to build my MotorPiTX, by Jason ‘boeeerb’ Barnett. It was a straightforward build. The only difficult part was the optional micro-USB power connector. Overall it took me about an hour to build. I took my time over it – knowing that I was going to photograph it and that you lot would be scrutinising every blemish. ;) About 20 minutes of that time was spent trying to ensure that I didn’t bridge two connections on the micro USB connector. I rarely use desoldering braid, but on this occasion I did. I […more…]

RasPi.TV hits 1 million page views

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Sep 272013
 
RasPi.TV hits 1 million page views

I don’t know if you caught the video of my talk at last week-end’s Cambridge Jam? One of the quiz questions (at 17:31) was “RasPi.TV will hit a million page views next week. True, false, pass?” Quite a few people called out “False”, although some of them sounded jocular. In fact it’s True. We just hit 1 million page views at around 5am this morning. That’s 1 million views of WordPress blog pages on RasPi.TV since June 2012. (My WordPress JetPack Stats module is configured to automatically exclude views by ‘logged in’ users i.e. me). […more…]

Cambridge Raspberry Jam 21 September 2013

 Input and Output, interfacing, python programming, raspberry pi, Raspberry Pi Hardware  7 Responses »
Sep 252013
 
Cambridge Raspberry Jam 21 September 2013

I had a very busy time at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam last Saturday. I was speaking and demonstrating the prototype RasPiO® baseboard that I designed. More on that in a bit. Because I was speaking, I decided not to do a show and tell as well. I was glad about that, as I tend to get stuck next to my show and tells, which stops me from going around and seeing what other people are doing. Since Mike “Recantha” Horne had asked me to judge the show and tells competition, I had to have a […more…]

Boeeerb’s MotorPiTX has arrived – a couple of quick photos

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Sep 172013
 
Boeeerb's MotorPiTX has arrived - a couple of quick photos

MotorPiTX, by Jason Barnett, was delivered today. It’s a robotics board for the Raspberry Pi, combined with ATX style power supply. It was one of this summer’s successful Kickstarter campaigns. It was either the first or second KS that I’ve backed. I’m a bit busy this week, but there’s a part of me that’s saying “never mind all that, just get out there and put it together”. I’m not going to do that tonight. I think we’ll have to settle for some kit photos and I’ll let you know how I get on with the […more…]

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