Cristov wanted an authentic 80s gameplay experience and so set about creating a Game Boy clone. He used a Raspberry Pi, three custom circuit boards, a 3.5″ TFT screen and actual Game Boy parts for the controls. You can see…
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Raspberry Pi pong game uses crane controllers
Here’s a nice bit of silliness for you. A German crane manufacturer asked “hwhardsoft” to create a game that used the company’s crane controllers. So, that’s what they did – the created a Pong game using Python and then adapted…
Learn Minecraft coding on the Raspberry Pi with LavaTrap
Recently, Martin O’Hanlon attended PyCon UK. During the conference, he ran workshops using Minecraft Pi Edition during which participants could create a game called “LavaTrap”. The end result of the game is that you have to avoid the lava by…
Nintendo Guitar Boy has a Raspberry Pi inside
FIbbef wanted to enter the 2015 Game Boy Classic build-off. He came up with the idea of meshing together a Game Boy and an electric guitar. A plexiglass shell is the main body and inside is a Raspberry Pi running…
Quake in a Box on the Raspberry Pi
“Quake in a Box” is a project that allows you to run a full QuakeWorld LAN server on your Raspberry Pi. It comes in the form on a downloadable distro image based on Arch Linux. Instructions are available here.
Map the Minecraft world around you on a Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have published a new SenseHAT tutorial. This one interrogates Minecraft Pi and creates a map of the surrounding blocks. This map is then sent to the SenseHAT where it is displayed on the 8×8 LED matrix. Read…
Old gaming console converted into a Raspberry Pi retro machine
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old Grandstand Scramble gaming console and adapted it for use with the Raspberry Pi. He’s got a 5″ HDMI TFT screen (which gives a resolution of 800×480) for the display and used the Picade controller…
Rubik’s Cube solver to replace valuable Raspberry Pi employees
Sorry, that was a bit click-baity wasn’t it! 🙂 Today, the BBC are running a feature on robots and how they are expected, or at least strongly suggested, to replace certain careers. Here’s one of the articles they are running.…
Roll-coins-down-a-ramp game with NodeRED and Raspberry Pi
9 year old LDR and his dad have written up their project. In this game, you roll coins down a ramp into a box that contains ‘islands’ of aluminium foil attempting to bridge the gaps across to the other side.…
Picade review – retro Raspberry Pi goodness!
Sandy Macdonald has done another one of his beautifully-written posts. This time, he’s taken on Pimoroni’s Picade, the build-it-yourself retro gaming console. He covers the hardware, including assembly, and the software as well as how he modded his console with…