Les Pounder‘s wife is a great fan of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (quite so, it’s my favourite, too!) So, Les decided to create an animated picture frame for her starring everyone’s favourite rogue Sirius Black. He found…
Neil Matthews has been in touch. He’s currently running a 20% discount offer on his Percheron e-paper HAT and other goodies. The Percheron e-paper HAT in particular is an excellent product – funded by Kickstarter back in December 2015 and…
Hi everyone. Myself and Tim Richardson are holding another of our Potton Pi & Pints events on 3rd March, as part of the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend. We’re hoping that plenty of people will bring their Pi (or Arduino,…
Last year, Mozilla announced Project Things and now they’ve announced the release of an OS image for the Raspberry Pi which implements that idea. With the concept of bringing all your home IoT devices under one roof, and providing a web interface…
Emanuele Coletta and friends have created a physical representation of a Pac Man game. The game characters were 3D printed and the ‘pills’ collected by Pac Man were changed to LEDs which disappear as the character rolls over them. The friends,…
Robert Prest has used a grandfather clock to house his latest project: a Bar Clock. The automated system can pour drinks with up to four spirits and four mixers and is controllable using voice, web GUI or keyboard. The platform…
Gosse Adema has created a 12-inch high 3D-printed lamp that tells you the weather forecast. He has used 288 WS2812 addressable LEDs to achieve a stunning effect which combines to tell you the temperature (vertically from blue to red) and…
Andy Felong needs a bit of assistance when parking in his garage because there’s a ladder sticking out just in the wrong place. A typical bodge-it solution would be to hang a tennis ball from the ceiling so that it touches the…
Jeroen and his classmates have taken a vintage T65 phone and converted it into a jukebox. Using the dial, you select your year and which track out of the Top 40 you would like to play. The sound is handled…
This year’s Pi Wars competition is really hotting up with 76 teams currently preparing to take on our seven challenge courses. Tim’s hard at work making courses and I’m hard at work sending out emails and doing all the administration work…
