In order to bring a bit of Christmas based fun to the office (I am normally a bit of a ‘bah humbug’) I have created a reaction game using a Raspberry Pi and a GPIO Xmas Tree from pocketmoneytronics.

A couple of months back the ordnance survey created version 2 of their Minecraft map of Great Britain, its got loads more detail than the original, and is even more brilliant than there first one.

I quite often run workshops about programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi either at Raspberry Jam’s or Pycon or schools or just about anywhere else you can power on a Pi and if you have attended ...

I’ve been working with David Whale (blog.whaleygeek.co.uk) since February writing a book called “Adventures in Minecraft” and today it started arriving through people’s doors!

I was looking for a way of controlling my initio robot by remote and having purchased 3 xbox 360’s in the past (red ring of death :( replacements) I have got a few wireless controllers knocking abo...

I’ve been continuing my Raspberry Pi Robot project (see previous post) and the next challenge was to create some functions to allow my robot to be autonomous.

Believe it or not Bukkit is not the only Minecraft server that supports plugins!