Matt Wagner has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a RedBear IoT HAT for wifi connectivity, a 2″ Adafruit screen and some power circuitry and fitted everything into an Altoids Tin, thus creating a portable Pi workstation. It’s even got a…
Josh King has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a PaPiRus 2″ e-ink HAT, an Adafruit Powerboost 1000c and a LiPo battery and made himself a name badge. He’s written the whole thing up as an Instructable which you can read here. Thanks to…
Allo.com is an Indian company trying to break into the Raspberry Pi audiophile market. They recently sent me a selection of the boards to try out. I’ve not quite gotten around to it yet – I’ve been too busy with…
Recently, the Maketronix Alarm kit was fully-funded on IndieGoGo. It is an add-on board and sensor for the Raspberry Pi that allows you to put together your own movement-activated alarm system. It comes with educational material that can be used…
Over at The MagPi, they’ve posted a review of the Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT. It’s an add-on board kit for the Raspberry Pi which comes with the HAT itself, two servos and an articulated arm that sits on top of the…
Recently, I reviewed the JustBoom AmpHAT and found it to be an excellent piece of kit for those that like their audio ‘just right’. Well, now it’s little brother, the Amp Zero pHAT has been used in a project that looks really lovely. Frederick…
Francesco Georg has used a Raspberry Pi, a Camera Module, LEGO bricks, some EV3 motors and a BrickPi add-on board to create this Rubik’s Cube solving robot. He figured out how to use a two-phase algorithm developed by Herbert Kociemba via a…
Spencer Organ has been putting his making skills to use with this Harry Potter-inspired build. Taking his cue from both the Weasley Clock and the Marauders’ Map, he’s taken a Raspberry Pi, an Explorer HAT, an Arduino, some servos and…
Pimoroni have just announced, via their Bilge Tank videocast, the launch of the Speaker pHAT board. The Zero-form-factor board comes as a kit that requires soldering and has the following features: I2S audio DAC with 3W mono amplifier (MAX98357A) Default…
Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World’s famous Weasley Clock and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife,…
