“KM4EFP” has written up his project in which he has created a portable ‘foxbox’ – a fox hunt transmitter. These transmitters are hidden so that radio enthusiasts can track them down using direction-finding techniques. You can read more about the…
Category: Games
Retro-fit your old Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi
We’ve seen it before: a Gameboy mod with a Pi inside. Well, this Instructable tells you how to do it yourself. Tim G has used a Raspberry Pi Model A and various other, fairly cheap, components in this tutorial which…
Render photographs from the Raspberry Pi camera into Minecraft
Ferran Fabregas has worked out a way to take images and render them in Minecraft Pi Edition. He’s now extended that idea and created a Python script using picamera to take a photo and then send it into Minecraft. Brilliant…
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet
Instructables user diygizmo has posted a great tutorial to help you build the arcade cabinet in the picture above. Check it out here.
Adventures in Minecraft – a new book for Raspberry Pi owners
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon have been busy writing a new book which uses Minecraft Pi Edition to teach Python programming. Written in the same format as Carrie Anne Philbin’s awesome book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, it covers everything from basic…
SNES gaming console using a Raspberry Pi
Reddit user Angryspec spent a few months adapting a SNES console and some control pads so that he could emulate the SNES and other gaming consoles. More details and pictures of the build are available here.
Building an Amiga A1200 for $40 with Raspberry PI and UAE4All
Jon Aasenden took a disused Raspberry Pi, some battery packs and installed UAE4All to give him a portable Amiga. You can read how he did it here.
Snakes and Ladders game for the Raspberry Pi
Linux guru Les Pounder has created this fantastic version of Snakes and Ladders called Pythons and Resistors, hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. You press a button to perform a dice roll and magnets and reed switches embedded in the…
Using a Hover gesture board with the Raspberry Pi
The team behind Hover, a gesture input device, have put together a tutorial, which uses a Pi in conjunction with an Arduino Leonardo, which guides you through using a Hover board to be a controller for PiMame/PiPlay. Take a look at…
A Raspberry Pi inside an old NES
Here’s a nice project. I don’t have his/her name, but it’s a good hack of an old NES games console to put a Pi inside with RetroPie running on it. Take a look at the full details of the build…