Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
Category: Games
Raspberry Pi retro gaming inside an NES cartridge
There’s lots of retro projects out there – you’ll have seen a lot of them on this blog before! Here’s another! 🙂 Zach has taken an NES cartridge (Back to the Future… because it’s not very good!), ripped the guts…
Use a micro:bit and your Raspberry Pi to cause earthquakes in Minecraft
Martin O’Hanlon is a Minecraft programming guru and he’s come up with a great method of using a micro:bit to generate earthquakes inside Minecraft: Pi Edition. You hook one of your micro:bit’s pins up to a GPIO pin on the…
Raspberry Pi Zero used for the world’s smallest MAME Arcade Cabinet
Over at Adafruit, Philip Burgess has blogged about a marvellous little project involving a Raspberry Pi Zero. And when I say “little”, I mean “little”! They’ve used the Zero, together with a 0.96″ OLED display, an amplifier, some tiny speakers and…
Automated game-playing solenoids highlights image processing with a Raspberry Pi
Kristian Lauszus took a course about image analysis in which students were asked to create a project to do the analysis. They were allowed to use OpenCV but none of the in-built filters – everything had to be done from scratch.…
Raspberry Pi Zero used to bring new life to GameBoy Advance
Over on Imgur, user Ryzee119 has documented the process of turning a GameBoy Advance into a Pi-powered retro gaming console. Chosen primarily because of the shoulder buttons, the GBA has had its guts ripped out and replaced by a couple of custom…
Catch those eggs in this cute Raspberry Pi / SenseHAT game
Dan Aldred wrote an article for MagPi issue 47 in which he creates a simple game using the SenseHAT and the Raspberry Pi. In the game, you play a red “basket” at the bottom of the screen which moves according to…
Using wireless modules with a Raspberry Pi to create a (very) active button game
Albert Hickey wanted to create a game for kids which would get them running around. So, he conceived a button-pressing game where buttons, mounted on tubes, would light up and need to be pressed to score points. This was similar…
Build a retro radio that talks in riddles with a Raspberry Pi
Designed to be part of an ‘escape room’, the Retro Radio Riddle is a retro radio set with it’s insides taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi and some custom circuitry. As the user twists the dial, they find…
Follow along with this excellent PSP / Raspberry Pi Zero build
Over at OtherMod.com, the blog owner has been tearing down and rebuilding a Sony PSP and retrofitting it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I love projects like this: taking broken technology and using some Pi magic to make it usable…