I’ve featured a few of these before, but this one looks particularly nice. Rasmus Hauschild is 14 years old and from Denmark. He has created a portable retro games console with the Pi and some nifty 3D printing. He has posted up…
Category: Games
Raspberry Pi/RetroPi gaming machine tutorial
Spencer Organ has written up a great tutorial on creating a retro gaming machine from a Raspberry Pi and a small composite monitor. It adds a nice method for building the machine to some other tutorials and brings it all together.…
16×2 LCD game written in Python on the Raspberry Pi
Prashant Mohta is making a Python game based around a 16×2 LCD screen. To do this, he’s using a simulated LCD on the desktop and then he’ll add in the real thing later. He’s currently on part 3 and it’s well…
Minecraft mega-structures on the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a quick piece of code for you. James Abela has been experimenting with the Minecraft API through Python and has developed a way to create a series of skyscrapers very quickly. He even gives them windows! This is a…
2048 game port for the Raspberry Pi written in Assembly
Four students from Imperial College London have ported the game 2048 across to the Pi using Assembly language. Franklin Schrans, Jacek Burys, Saurav Mitra, Srikrishna Subrahmanyam teamed up for their first year final ARM project, coded the game and then added a…
PatternCraft – build with punchcards in Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
Gemma May Latham has been looking into ways that Minecraft can be used to explore artistic uses of textiles. With help from David Whale (co-author of the excellent book Adventures in Minecraft) she built a punchcard reader that is powered by an…
Bare metal game of DOOM on the Raspberry Pi
Four students from Imperial College, London (Bálint Rikker, Csongor Kiss, Sicong Li and Toby Shaw) teamed up for their first year final project. The project aimed to re-write classic shooter DOOM to the Raspberry Pi via 9800 lines of ‘bare metal’ code (i.e. ARM assembly code and…
Simon Says game made with a Raspberry Pi and a Pimoroni ExplorerHAT
Richard Hayler has produced a Simon Says game by wiring up some LEDs onto the breadboard of an ExplorerHAT and then writing the necessary Python code. The LEDs light up in a sequence which you then match by pressing the ExplorerHAT…
Flappy Bird game controlled by brainwave activity via a Raspberry Pi
On 6th June, we held a Cambridge Raspberry Jam at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. One of our Show and Tell tables was manned by Carl Monk and Albert Hickey. Albert has created a game called ‘Flappy Bird’ using Python…
Minecraft ISS on the Raspberry Pi rotated using the AstroPi
Martin O’Hanlon has constructed a model of the International Space Station in Minecraft. He has then used the AstroPi HAT to send accelerometer data to the Pi. When the AstroPi is rotated, the space station within Minecraft mimics this movement. It’s…