Raspberry Pi Roundup: Watching for the meter-reader, driving Lego cars and sweet art

Being a person that lives in San Francisco, we’re reliably informed, is one of the best ways to spend lots of money, while simultaneously competing with other persons for very limited living space. The situation is much the same for cars, apparently, because one clever San Franciscan developed a Raspberry Pi-based gadget to help him hold onto parking spaces for as long as possible.
The resident parking spaces near developer John Naulty’s home in the Castro have a two-hour limit, but