Just a quick one this evening. Here’s a nice 3D printed enclosure for the Raspberry Pi from Paul-Louis Ageneau. It features two bays for hard drives that slide in, together with USB adapters. USB cables then connect the drives up…
There are many sea-borne creatures that are notoriously difficult to film and photograph. To solve this problem, researchers at MIT have developed SoFi, a rubber-encased robotic fish. Mimicking the movement and look of a real fish, SoFi can swim without…
Nuheat HOME thermostats cost around $200 a shot. Although very nice, they suffer from being destroyed by electricity spikes. Faced with needing yet another replacement, hacker Sergey has turned to the Raspberry Pi to provide a better, more cost-effective solution.In…
One of James West’s sons has been known not to hear the cry of “tea time!” because of loud music playing in his bedroom. James has come up with a Raspberry Pi solution to the problem featuring a 12V LED…
Jean Perardel has taken several Arduino Fio boards, 6-Degrees-of-Free sensors and a Wii Nunchuck and attached them to his body to detect movement and orientation. The signals are received by an Arduino Micro and a Raspberry Pi is then used to interpret…
I do like a nice music-and-tech project and this one is pretty special. Called the Nsynth, this tablet-with-controls device is powered by a Raspberry Pi and accepts MIDI inputs which it then feeds through an openFrameworks app. The MIDI samples…
Max Kern has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a camera module and some power circuitry and sensors and created a first-person viewpoint wheeled security drone, the ZeroBot Pro, an upgrade from the previous ZeroBot (without the Pro!). The software…
On 14th March 2018, when Stephen Hawking died, the world lost one of its great minds. His courage, his determination and his sheer brilliance in his chosen field made him stand out as someone who made his mark on the…
Last Friday, Robot Wars producers Mentorn Media tweeted that the BBC had declined to commission further series of the popular robot fighting series. Fans of the series immediately took to social media, especially Twitter, under the hashtag #BringBackRobotWars in the hope that they…
Cambridgeshire-based UK robot manufacturer Pi Borg has held the winter 2017/18 season Grand Final of their autonomous driving competition, Formula Pi. The finalists were: IQaudIO lambda.p.racing Enigma Swinders The Hayler-Goodalls The competition, which sees self-driving Raspberry Pi-powered cars zooming around a…
