Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has done his regular post-launch look at the power usage of the newest Raspberry Pi – the Zero W. The headline is that the Zero W doesn’t take much more power than the regular Zero, but…
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YouTube player uses an old Casio TV 880 and a Raspberry Pi Zero
David Watts had an old Casio TV 880 unit and he wondered if he could use it as a display for a Raspberry Pi. The Casio has a composite input which can be used, and handily the Pi has a…
Use an Altoids tin to create a portable Raspberry Pi Zero workstation
Matt Wagner has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a RedBear IoT HAT for wifi connectivity, a 2″ Adafruit screen and some power circuitry and fitted everything into an Altoids Tin, thus creating a portable Pi workstation. It’s even got a…
Six-voice polyphonic synthesizer built using a Raspberry Pi
The R-MONO Lab is a ‘recreational club’ based in Hamamatsu, Japan. They’ve taken a Raspberry Pi 3 and put it inside a Roland K-25m, a tiny MIDI keyboard and called it the S³-6R. Snappily named, it has the following features: Original-Uniq…
Formula Pi laser timing rig using a Raspberry Pi – find out how it was done
Recently, robotics designer, manufacturer and retailer Pi Borg ran the first Formula Pi competition. For the competition, the used a laser timing rig to record the exact lap times of each robot. They also used a similar method at Pi…
Build your own spiral speaker with JustBoom and a Raspberry Pi
Recently, I reviewed the JustBoom AmpHAT and found it to be an excellent piece of kit for those that like their audio ‘just right’. Well, now it’s little brother, the Amp Zero pHAT has been used in a project that looks really lovely. Frederick…
micro:bit sequencer using a Raspberry Pi for sound synthesis
David Whale (@whaleygeek), who some of you will know (he goes to a lot of events and does loads of outreach work, especially with micro:bit and the IET, and also runs a Raspberry Pi club in Harlow) and Jonny Austin, CTO of the…
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered thumb harp (English and French versions)
Here’s another tutorial, this time in the form of an Instructable, although it’s not for the ‘beginner’. It uses wires of different lengths, an accelerometer to detect different vibrations caused by plucking the wires and an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter chip to…
Harry Potter-inspired map-clock using a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Spencer Organ has been putting his making skills to use with this Harry Potter-inspired build. Taking his cue from both the Weasley Clock and the Marauders’ Map, he’s taken a Raspberry Pi, an Explorer HAT, an Arduino, some servos and…
Wizarding World / Internet of Things clock using a Raspberry Pi
Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World’s famous Weasley Clock and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife,…