The boys from the Pi Podcast team continue their streak of excellent broadcasts with their new episode. This time, in addition to a news round-up, they cover RetroPie which is an operating system focusing on retro gaming. Listen to the…
Category: Games
Control an X-wing in Minecraft using the Raspberry Pi and Skywriter HAT
Scott Turner has combined a couple of other tutorials to enable you to program a gesture interface that will control a model of an X-wing in Minecraft. He builds upon the work done by Martin O’Hanlon and others and adds the…
Live coding with Sonic Pi and Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
The MagPi have published a tutorial that Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, wrote about live coding with his software. This tutorial has a twist, however, as it integrates with Minecraft: Pi Edition and allows you to build in the 3D world…
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT game – Sense Cave
Albert Hickey (@winkleink) got a Sense HAT for Christmas and wanted to create a game using it. What he came up with is Sense Cave. Sense Cave is a maze with 64 rooms (8×8) containing emeralds. Some of the exits/entrances…
Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock with the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred has done a lovely implementation of the classic game Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock using the SenseHAT. The program is written in Python and is available on Github and you can see a video of it in action below:
Create a marble maze with the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT
I’ve just had this resource pointed out to me on Twitter, so thought I’d share it with you all whilst I’m waiting to go to our work’s Christmas lunch. The SenseHAT has an on-board accelerometer, with which you can measure…
Raspberry Pi DOTs boards now available
The DOTs board, designed by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is now available to buy online. The board, which uses conductive paint in a dot-to-dot fashion, is supplied with a plugin for Minecraft Pi Edition which will draw the outline of…
Resurrecting a ZX Spectrum using a Raspberry Pi
PJ Evans was fortunate enough to find a cheap ZX Spectrum online and decided to resurrect it using a Raspberry Pi Model B+, an Arduino and some USB conversion circuitry. He is currently part-way through his build and is documenting…
Hack a Playstation with a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming
Wesley Archer has taken an old Playstation console, a Raspberry Pi, a few other bits and some custom circuitry and created a retro gaming machine. He’s now blogged about it over at Pi Supply. Read more here.
Gravity Pong – a Raspberry Pi controlled game with over 1700 LEDs
The guys at Norwegian Creations have created a game called Gravity Pong. It is a 4.5 metre high ball-bouncing game which uses 1792 individually controllable RGB LEDs and it is controlled by a Raspberry Pi 2. For more details, read…