James from Down Under (a Land of Plenty) has build a Remote Camera System for monitoring water supplies for livestock in remote areas of farms, thus saving the farmer a lot of time and travelling. The system wakes up once a day, takes a photo of the water trough, sends it to the farmer and then goes […]
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It’s been a busy time at the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently, with not one but two new boards released. Firstly the A+ arrived which is an updated Model A, but in a new square form factor and with the extra GPIO that the B+/2 sport. Next was the release of the Raspberry Pi 2 which
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Chad over at Manifold has produced a fantastic new version of their Feeder Tweeter. It’s a solar powered Raspberry Pi connected to a camera and motion sensor that tweets a every time a bird feeds. You can see the latest pictures over at FeederTweeter.net It’s an upgrade of the original Feeder Tweeter 1.6 and now uses a
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A few weeks ago the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry PI Model B+ which is an improved version of the Model B. What are the major changes and can you still use the Sleepy Pi with the Model B+? Firstly, the most obvious differences are in the form factor. The B+ and B are
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For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do Have you ever wondered what Major Tom was looking at? Well now you can, but BEWARE this is a real time stealer! Those jolly folks at NASA have been kind enough to
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The shop has been keeping us fairly busy recently and although we didn’t make a formal announcement, the Sleepy Pi has been in stock and available for a couple of months now. All the issues with the early boards were resolved and along the way the power consumption was lowered even further. New Product We’re
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Happy New Year one and all! Here at Spell Foundry we’re looking forward to 2014 and all that it holds. It has been far too long since my last post and my New Year’s resolution has got to be to post more content and more often! So what’s been happening in the dungeons (ok, workshops
It’s been a while since the last update, but that’s not to say there hasn’t been plenty going on in the depths of the Spell Foundry workshop. Here’s a few snippets: Sleepy Pi Beta boards are now out in the wild, later than hoped largely as a result of the volume of documentation that needed
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The Fledgling I was recently doing some work for a UK arm of a large US defence company and I was introduced to a young 17 year old work experience student. A conversation ensued which went something like this: Me: “Are you interested in a career in engineering?” Him: “Oh yes, I really enjoy electronics.”
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It Lives! It’s been a bit longer than anticipated in the procurement and commissioning of the latest revision of the Sleepy Pi hardware. But it’s all been good and the Sleepy Pi is ready to take the next step. There was a lot of software that was required to be written and Raspberry Pi configurations
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