I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
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Sending and receiving messages from the grandkids with the Raspberry Pi-powered Yayagram
Spain-based Manu, who you can find on Twitter, needed to help his 96-year old grandmother communicate with her grandchildren. She is hard-of-hearing and not very tech-savvy, so having her use a mobile phone is a bit of a non-starter. To…
Taking the Cytron Maker Pi Pico out for a spin with the Raspberry Pi Pico
Tony Goodhew has been in touch about some experiments he has run on the new, low-cost Maker Pi Pico from Cytron. TL;DR – here’s the Instructable. In the UK, the Maker Pi Pico is available from The Pi Hut (also…
The PicoPicorder – a work-in-progress prototype using a Raspberry Pi Pico and lots of components from Pimoroni and Adafruit!
During March, and for the past week as well, I’ve been working on the latest iteration of my Picorder project. This project, which has been my “go-to project” for the past 9 years (gulp!) is now running from a Raspberry…
Create a low-res thermal camera with a Raspberry Pi Pico, an AMG8833 sensor and an ILI9341 screen with CircuitPython
As part of an ongoing Raspberry Pi Pico-based project, I wanted to create a thermal camera. To do this, I first of all went shopping to find what I needed. Here are the two components for this mini project: Adafruit…
Playing sounds from the Raspberry Pi Pico using CircuitPython – a journey of discovery
As you probably know by now, I’m not a microcontroller expert. However, with the advent of microcontrollers that use MicroPython and CircuitPython, I am a lot more comfortable using them now than I used to be! However, because the Raspberry…
Introducing the LumiCube – a Raspberry Pi-powered LED cube on Kickstarter now
London-based start-up AbstractFoundry have launched their first Kickstarter for the Lumicube. It is a 10cm cube with 192 LEDs over three sides and ports etc on the back: You add your own Raspberry Pi to the cube and then use…
Finding a Raspberry Pi Zero retro emulator in the smallest of places!
Reddit user JamHamster has done this lovely retro emulator build out of an audio cassette and a Pi Zero W. The entire underside is a heatsink made out of aluminium (which is a bit of an overkill for a Zero,…
Run a v7 Unix clone on your Raspberry Pi Pico – take a look at this experiment using Fuzix
David Given has been working on porting the Fuzix operating system to various microcontrollers and he wondered if he could get it working on the Raspberry Pi Pico. He’s described Fuzix in the following terms: Fuzix is a proper Unix,…
Using a Raspberry Pi Pico as the cartridge for a GameBoy
LyneByLyne on Reddit has posted an intriguing video in which he uses a Raspberry Pi Pico as a cartridge for a GameBoy. It took a lot of trial-and-error to get it working, and the Pico is overclocked to 200mHz in…