Cabe Atwell wanted an authentic arcade experience at home. So, he built a replica of the Street Fighter 2 control console and a metal dance mat and has now hooked up a Raspberry Pi using emulation software. The console and…
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Raspberry Pi Lunchbox Arcade machine
This is quite an old blog entry, but not one I think I’ve covered before. Stiggy has taken a plastic lunchbox, some arcade controls and created an arcade machine! The arcade controls are linked to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO and he’s…
Raspberry Pi arcade game emulator in an Atari Lynx
David Hooker has taken an old Atari Lynx handheld computer, ripped the guts out of it and fitted a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other electronic components (an amplifier for instance). He’s installed Shea Silverman’s PiPlay and used one of…
QR codes in Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition
Martin O’Hanlon has used the qrcode Python module and Minecraft Pi Edition together to create QR codes inside the Minecraft world. Take a look on his blog.
Raspberry Pi GPIO Xmas Tree reaction game
Martin O’Hanlon got hold of one of Andrew Gale’s GPIO Xmas Trees and programmed it as a reaction game. Here’s how the game plays out: The game is pretty simple, random leds are lit up on the Xmas tree, the player…
Internet Meme-themed Raspberry Pi Pinball machine
Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the…
Pushing the Raspberry Pi A+ to the limits
Over at Philtopia, Phil has been seeing what the Model A+ can do. He’s installed MAME and tried out various games and also tried (successfully) to watch full HD videos from YouTube. It’s really reassuring how far 256MB of RAM can…
Tetris on a Raspberry Pi using the PiLite
Here’s a bit of fun. Over at piecesofpi.co.uk, Stephen has created a Tetris implementation using a Python library that allows the use of a Ciseco PiLite as a display. Read more here – the code is available on GitHub. See…
Minecraft Pi Edition worksheet
Martin O’Hanlon has generously shared the Minecraft: Pi Edition worksheet that he uses during Jams, at schools and at other events. You can download the worksheet from his blog. His book (co-written with David Whale) which goes further into Minecaft, is…
Beat the Buzzer with the Raspberry Pi
Dave Patterson and his primary school class have constructed a beat-the-buzzer game for their local school Christmas fair. It uses an expansion board from ModMyPi to protect the Pi from static electricity and Dave has programmed the whole thing in Python,…