Xiang Zhai has done just that. He ripped the two laser diodes out of a pair of drives and then put them together with some other cheap components, attached a Pi for control and lo and behold he’s ended up…
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#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console
This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen. Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery…
Line following self-balancing robot controlled by a #RaspberryPi
Samuel Matos has developed a self-balancing robot and has now added a line-following ability to it. You can follow his progress, including a lot of details about the build and algorithms used, on his blog – http://roboticssamy.blogspot.pt/
#RaspberryPi temperature data recorder with a DS18B20 sensor
Bernhard Suter has written a comprehensive tutorial on getting the DS18B20 temperature sensor working with the Pi. It includes the Python code to interrogate the sensor. Read more here
Request for help – motor controller boards for the #RaspberryPi
Hello blog readers. First of all, thanks for reading – you make writing this blog worthwhile and it’s great to hear from a few of you from time-to-time, so keep those comments coming in. Very soon, I’m going to be…
Plan your travel on the #RaspberryPi using GraphHopper
Peter Karussell, over on dzone, has blogged about using the open source Java software GraphHopper to do road routing on the Pi. Just imagine if you could combine this with a touch screen and a GPS module – Pi-powered TomTom!…
New Raspberry Jam for #RaspberryPi owners in Southend-on-Sea #rjam
The Southend-on-Sea Linux User Group is organising a Raspberry Jam on 1st March. The event runs from 10am to 5pm and is billed as an ‘open day’ in which you can learn what to do with your Pi when you…
Creating a photobooth with the #RaspberryPi camera and the Python API
Following on from Dave Jones’ excellent work on the Pi camera Python library, David Whale’s Raspberry Pi Saturday Club decided to use it to create a photobooth. They combined it with PyGame to do some text overlays and soon had…
Open Source Limelight brings streamed gaming to your #RaspberryPi
Limelight is a piece of open source software that lets you stream games from your home PC to your Raspberry Pi. Here’s what The Gadget Show has to say about it: Limelight makes use of similar game streaming magic to…
Getting to grips with the PiHub and a bluetooth adapter on the #RaspberryPi
This is a quickie – just a link to a post by J A Watson on ZDNet in which he tries out the official Raspberry Pi hub and also gets a cheap bluetooth adapter working. Read it here