I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
Category: Games
Finding a Raspberry Pi Zero retro emulator in the smallest of places!
Reddit user JamHamster has done this lovely retro emulator build out of an audio cassette and a Pi Zero W. The entire underside is a heatsink made out of aluminium (which is a bit of an overkill for a Zero,…
Crowbits from Elecrow – electronic block-based STEM building kit launched on Kickstarter
Hong Kong-based Elecrow, who not long ago completed shipping their CrowPi 2 laptop kit based on the Raspberry Pi, have launched their latest Kickstarter campaign: Crowbits. Crowbits are magnetically-snappable physical programming blocks that enable kids to put together complex constructions…
Play Hunt the Wumpus with your Raspberry Pi Pico
Tony Smith (aka SmittyTone) has created a version of the game Hunt the Wumpus for the Raspberry Pi Pico, programmed in C. He’s used an 8×8 LED matrix display (with I2C backpack) for the display then added a joystick, another…
Conway’s Game of Life on a Pimoroni Pico Scroll Pack (and other accessories!)
Tony Goodhew got in touch and told me about Steve Baines’ effort to get the famous Conway’s Game of Life running on the Raspberry Pi Pico with a Pimoroni Pico Unicorn Pack attached. You can see Steve’s original script on…
Using a Raspberry Pi Pico as the cartridge for a GameBoy
LyneByLyne on Reddit has posted an intriguing video in which he uses a Raspberry Pi Pico as a cartridge for a GameBoy. It took a lot of trial-and-error to get it working, and the Pico is overclocked to 200mHz in…
Create a miniature version of Space Invaders on an LCD screen with the Raspberry Pi Pico and MicroPython
James from Print N Play has taken his Raspberry Pi Pico, a mini SSD1306 screen and a potentiometer and created a (very) miniature version of arcade classic Space Invaders. You can see how he did it in his very detailed…
Controlling the Euro Truck Simulator game from a physical dashboard with a Raspberry Pi and an Adafruit Clue
Spencer Organ is, as he puts it, “a big fan of both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck simulator”. He found out about an API that comes with ETS2 that allows you to tap into the game and both…
Play Tetris on your Raspberry Pi Pico using this add-on board from Pimoroni
A Reddit user called Jools64 has created a fully-playable demo of the game Tetris using a Raspberry Pi Pico, the newest board from Raspberry Pi. It uses a Pico Display Pack from Pimoroni to show the game and the four…
Vintage radio hacked to produce Raspberry Pi-controlled AIY game
Dane, over at 8bitsAndAByte has taken a West German Telefunken radio and retrofitted it with a Raspberry Pi and a Google AIY Voice HAT and microphone (this is made from the original version, but I’m sure the new version would…