Jim Flewker has taken a BerryClip and written a horse-racing game for it. This board is great for a beginner (I’ve got one myself and it was the first thing I soldered successfully) and has 6 LEDs, a buzzer and…
Category: Games
DIY quiz show with a #RaspberryPi – Triviabox!
Sandy Walsh has taken a Pi, a PiFace board, some extra bits and pieces and some bike handles from China and created a buzz-to-give-your-answer quiz set-up. The Foundation have covered it brilliantly on their blog. Read here
#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console
This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen. Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery…
Open Source Limelight brings streamed gaming to your #RaspberryPi
Limelight is a piece of open source software that lets you stream games from your home PC to your Raspberry Pi. Here’s what The Gadget Show has to say about it: Limelight makes use of similar game streaming magic to…
Arcade-in-a-Briefcase project with the #RaspberryPi
With thanks to Pi Weekly for spotting this one! If you haven’t subscribed yet, why the heck not? Travis Reynolds has taken a 1980s briefcase he found in a goodwill shop and converted it into an arcade machine. The Raspberry…
Program in Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi using Javascript
Ireland-based programmer Walter Higgins has created ScriptCraft, a Minecraft mod that allows you to program inside Minecraft using Javascript. It uses a version of the Minecraft server modded using CraftBukkit. There’s more information and instructions on Walter’s GitHub including how…
An Atari Asteroids controller for the #RaspberryPi
I love retro projects (as evidenced by Daniel Bull’s recent guest post) and this one is great. Tim Bartlett has created his own arcade case and added arcade buttons and a Raspberry Pi to be able play the old Atari…
Matrix display and Wii nunchuck together make Tetris for the #RaspberryPi
Vince has taken a Pi, some LED matrix displays, a 7-segment display and a Wii nunchuck and put them together to create a Tetris-like game. The game is controlled by the accelerometer in the nunchuck, rather than the joystick, so control…
Building a retro joystick and retro games platform with the #RaspberryPi
BenCao74 has been working on a GPIO board called the PiJamma. It’s been designed to make it simple to connect retro gaming hardware to the Pi. Take a look at his latest arcade box.
Use your browser to control Sid the #RaspberryPi – powered robot arm
Si digital have used a Pi, Node.js, Nginx and the camera module to create a controllable robot arm. You use controls on your web browser to control the arm and build up points. I was unable to get it working…