Norwegian makers Norwegian Creations, HK-reklame and Trondheim Makers wanted to advertise the Trondheim Maker Faire. They hit upon the idea of installing a Raspberry Pi and a screen inside bus stops so that people could play PacMan while they waited.…
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Solve a Rubik’s Cube with a Raspberry Pi
Zijiang, over at Makeblock, has created a robotic apparatus that will solve a Rubik’s cube. It has four robotic arms which pivot to turn the sides of the cube and the whole thing is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Take…
Upgrading a Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi
John Reder has taken the shell of an old Commodore 64 and placed a Raspberry Pi inside. Using PiMAME he has emulated the C64 and now has a working system! Read more here or view the video below.
Asteroids shooting game on a Raspberry Pi gun!
A couple of hackers have taken a toy gun, fitted a Raspberry Pi inside, and then used a see-through screen (like you get on teleprompters) to create a shoot-the-asteroids game. Very cool project. You can read more on Avishay Orpaz’s…
Wooden handheld Raspberry Pi
Instructables user fernseher1 has written a full tutorial on creating a handheld Raspberry Pi using a wooden case and an analogue screen. Read it here.
Handheld NES and Gameboy with Raspberry Pi
Nicholas Moore has done a conversion of a Gameboy shell he purchased from Kitsch-Bent by adding a Raspberry Pi and some other components, together with a handy retro gaming image from Adafruit. You can read how he did it here or watch…
Another cool #RaspberryPi Gameboy mod
Raspberry Pi Forum user Microbyte has taken an old Gameboy and squeezed a Raspberry Pi and a composite screen in to create a handheld retro gaming machine. I know this has been done before, but this is a neat build…
Create fractal trees in Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon has been busy using the 3D Turtle graphics module he wrote to create fractal trees in Minecraft. I won’t say any more as there’s plenty of detail and code listings over on his website, but suffice to say…
Robotic arm plays tic-tac-toe with a #RaspberryPi
Ronniya Varghese, Valencia Dias, Sanjana Paryekar & Leroy Pereira from PCCE have developed a robotic arm, linked it up to a Raspberry Pi and written some Python which plays tic-tac-toe on a board against a human opponent. Take a look at the…
New Minecraft game for the #RaspberryPi – hunt the TNT!
Matt Hawkins over at Raspberry Pi Spy has taken the ‘hunt the diamond’ concept and improved upon it. The game, called Operation Counterstrike, randomly places blocks of TNT around the map and then challenges you to find, and destroy, the…