Two students from the University of Washington, Maks Surguy and Yi Fan Yin, decided to create an interactive doll’s house that could be controlled by a Playstation Move controller. To do this, they first of all designed the doll’s house, printed it out…
Al Bencomo has created this wonderful 3D-printed robot that can overcome obstacles by changing the shape of its wheels. FRILLER (FRILL Explorer Robot) uses a Raspberry Pi 3 with Android Things OS to control motors connected via an Adafruit Motor HAT.…
Alec Short over at Apollo50 has created Project Arthur. Using paper/card and an embedded Raspberry Pi, Project Arthur uses APIs and IoT services to track the International Space Station and light up an LED embedded in a model of the Goonhilly Earth…
Moheeb Zara has taken a USB OBDII adapter, a Raspberry Pi, a GPS module and a Hologram Nova USB GSM modem and created a car fleet tracker. The project enables him to track a vehicle, or vehicles, geographically and map against…
Gary Taylor from Dundee’s Abertay University found an original, but water-damaged, K9 BBC TV prop in his University’s lab and, because he is an enormous Doctor Who and robotics fan, wanted to resurrect it. This formed the basis for his final…
Scott Baker has a vintage computing habit! For his latest project, he wanted to solve the issue of transferring files between a PC/XT and a modern desktop. To do this, he created an ISA card PCB (seen above) which takes…
Etcher, the brilliant SD card writing software, has just been updated to v1.4.3 and there’s some great new features in the release. Ability to write to multiple targets at once. Just select them from the device listing. This means that…
James Adams from Raspberry Pi Trading has written a fascinating article about the new power management chip on the 3B+, which is the MXL7704 from MaxLinear. There’s lots of technical detail here, but it’s quite accessible. You can read more…
Michael Teeuw has done a fantastic job on this interactive control panel for his son, Enzo. It uses a combination of Arduino and Raspberry Pi along with several other components including replacing LEDs inside buttons with Neopixels, an Adafruit Speaker…
For ages, I’ve been meaning to take one of these 4.3 inch TFT screens and embed a Raspberry Pi inside it. I realise, of course, that the resolution of the screen isn’t anything much (certainly not “high resolution” as it…
