Part three of our Raspberry Pi Weather Station Tutorial is now up! In this section of our tutorial we are going to figure out how to log our weather station’s data and display it on live updating graphs using a free web-based data service called ThingSpeak. Interested? Head on...
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Part two of our Raspberry Pi Weather Station Tutorial is now up – this part focuses on getting the Raspbian operating system configured, software libraries installed for our sensors, and writing basic Python code to read each sensor and print the results. Interested? Head on over to the tutorial!
A very popular thing to do with a Pi is make some variety of robot; maybe a crawler or wheeled vehicle or a manipulator arm or perhaps something a bit wilder like a humaniod or even an eight armed pogo-stick-using nightmare from the depths of your id. The common thread...
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Happy Pi Day! And happy new Raspberry Pi Day as well! That’s right – there is a new Raspberry Pi on the market! The Raspberry Pi 3+ is a slightly improved version of the original Raspberry Pi 3. The 3+ sees a modest increase in CPU speed (1.4GHz) ,...
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The Raspberry Pi 6th birthday is coming and this year we are celebrating with a Raspberry Pi Jam, hosted here, at BC Robotics! So what is a Pi Jam? It is a chance to learn about the Raspberry Pi, try one out, find out about cool accessories, and talk...
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This Saturday November 18th we will be hosting an Introduction to Raspberry Pi workshop. This workshop aims to guide you through the initial steps of setting up your Raspberry Pi, how to find and install software, how to connect to your Pi from another computer, and how to find...
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