George Merlocco has taken gaming to extremes with his “Painsaw” project which involves a Raspberry Pi Zero, an Adafruit TFT, some other gubbinses and a blummin’ CHAINSAW. The chainsaw is an Echo Junior Chainsaw toy and you can find out more…
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Using your Raspberry Pi Zero on your laptop to play Minecraft
Albert Hickey has written a fantastic tutorial over on his WinkleInk blog. He has used a preview version of RealVNC which allows you to view and play Minecraft Pi Edition on a normal PC, in Albert’s case, a laptop. Up to now,…
Play classic DOS games on the Raspberry Pi
Gus wanted to play some retro DOS games, so he set about seeing if he could do it on his Raspberry Pi. He’s managed it by using a piece of software called DOSbox and has written up full instructions on…
SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…
Full Minecraft game running on a Raspberry Pi 3
Mike Hooper has been looking at ways to get the full version of Minecraft working on his Pi. He’s now managed it and has written up a tutorial over on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Great work, Mike! You can see…
Game creation software available for free to Raspberry Pi users
The Game Creators have just announced that they have released their AppGameKit software for the Raspberry Pi free-of-charge. CEO Lee Bamber said: “It’s the full AppGameKit BASIC, which has the IDE, can compile and broadcast (includes broadcasting to iOS and Android…
Emergency spaceship simulator game has a Raspberry Pi server
The boffins at York Hackspace have created a demonstration piece called SpaceHack for Maker Faires and other events that simulates an emergency situation onboard a spacecraft and then invites players to work together to keep it operating for as long as…
Game Boy Zero with a Raspberry Pi – get yourself an old one and follow along!
Wermy, the creator of the brilliant Game Boy Zero has started to blog a ‘How To’ guide on sudomod.com. He starts out by taking a broken Game Boy and Dremelling it to add holes for the buttons and removing the battery…
The Pi Podcast – new episode for Raspberry Pi fans focuses on news and Dexter Industries
This time on The Pi Podcast, the guys cover the latest news, including an intriguing (and successful) attempt to get Minecraft-alike game Minetest running on the Pi. Should be interesting to see if we can get Python integration on that as…
Take the Minecraft Bedrock Challenge with the Raspberry Pi and The MagPi
The MagPi has just published a fun little tutorial which gives you the code for “The Bedrock Challenge”. In Minecraft Pi Edition, the Python code generates a random, invisible arena with holes in the floor that you must avoid to prevent…