Alex Ellis has taken a mini Christmas tree, a NeoPixel strip, some jumper wires and an Alexa/Echo Dot and created an Internet of Things device that is sure to get your blinkiness senses going. The Alexa communicates with the Raspberry…
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Building a Raspberry Pi-powered Pokemon Pokedex
Philip Organ, a 12-year old, year 7 student from Birmingham. He has recently been captured by the Pokemon Go craze and wanted to bring a bit of Raspberry Pi know-how to the game. So, he took a Pi, added a…
Raspberry Pi 3 inside a Wii U handheld console
Over at sudomod.com, banjokazooie has been sharing photographs of his latest build. It is a Wii U gamepad with the innards taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi 3 and some other components. He’s put RetroPie on the finished result…
Cheap as chips: the Raspberry Pi Zero in a botched-together games console
Just saw this over at The MagPi, so thought I’d share. Joe Foulkes wanted to create an as cheap-as-possible gaming console. So, he took an old Samsung Galaxy box, a Pi Zero, some prototyping board and some other components and…
Turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB plug-in dongle
Hacker NODE has worked out that if you solder a full-sized USB male connector to the data USB pads and power/ground lines on a Raspberry Pi Zero, you can just plug the Zero into your PC like a dongle and…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
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…
Programming the Raspberry Pi and an Oculus Rift with VR Zero
At a CamJam long past, Wayne Keenan brought along a Raspberry Pi running a virtual reality demo viewed with an early version Oculus Rift. Looking something like the image above, it featured a brick pi symbol floating on a sea of green…
Raspberry Pi wall calendar features a beautifully finished frame
Part woodworking project, part geeky techniness, “paqmanbiker’s” project was done as a Mother’s Day present for his wife. He used a Raspberry Pi 3 and an old 17″ Dell display and then surrounded it with a highly-polished frame. A bit…
Raspberry Pi used to subvert San Francisco parking restrictions
In many San Francisco neighbourhoods, you are required to move your car every two hours to satisfy a parking restriction. However, in reality, you only need to move your car every two hours after it has been seen by an enforcement…