Brussels-based Ilhan Ünal (Raz) was inspired to create a giant replica of Nintendo’s GameBoy. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and an old desktop monitor to do it and installed Retropie to drive the games. The case is made out of MDF…
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Interactive Astro Pi model with Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon is, basically, a Jedi when it comes to Minecraft Pi. He has now combined his work on the Astro Pi with a model of that same board within the Minecraft world. You can do everything with the model, from…
Set up your Raspberry Pi to play Atari 2600 games
John Browning over at Engadget has written a great tutorial about using a piece of software called ‘Stella’ to emulate the Atari 2600. He takes you through installing the software and then configuring it to play the ROMs which you…
Raspberry Pi NFC Minecraft blocks
Tony Dicola has written a great tutorial over on the Adafruit site in which he uses an NFC reader and tags together with a Raspberry Pi running Minecraft. The scripts he has written allows you to program different NFC tags…
Raspberry Pi brings to life Adventure Time console BMO
Well-loved cartoon series Adventure Time has been used as the basis for a Raspberry Pi project. Mike Barretta 3D printed the case for the unit, which has a Pi inside, and has loaded it up with all kinds of retro gaming…
Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi
Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. For this, they used their Arduberry board (which brings Arduino-compatible control to the Pi) and some standard software and custom code. Read how they did…
Solve the Monty Hall problem with Python
Trevor Appleton has written another of his great tutorials in which he takes you through a Python program. This time it’s to solve the “three doors” or “Monty Hall” problem. You are presented with three doors and have to try…
Raspberry Pi Game Gear
Phil Herlihy has written a tutorial for Adafruit in which he takes a Sega Game Gear handheld console and fits it out with all kinds of stuff, including a LiPo battery to power it and, of course, a Raspberry Pi…
First there was LEGO, now see Minecraft Star Wars on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon teamed up with David Whale at the weekend to give a talk on Minecraft to the Big Birthday Weekend crowd. For this presentation, Martin wanted to really show off the capabilities of programmable Minecraft and he has created a…
Load custom maps into Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft
Simon Johnson has written a brief tutorial on how to import a custom map into Minecraft: Pi Edition. It’s pretty straightforward and you’ll soon have things like night-time and animals. This doesn’t turn it into ‘survival mode’ but it does mean…