Happy New Year everybody! The owner of FacelessTech wanted a small retro gaming console so he turned to the Raspberry Pi Zero. He designed a custom circuit board to house the control buttons, taking inspiration from Wonky Resistor’s ScoreZero. He…
Our next Cambridge Raspberry Jam (CamJam) will be on Saturday, 27th January at Impington Village College (the same as last time). The event will run from 10.30am – 4pm and will again feature talks, workshops, show-and-tell and a Marketplace. In terms of workshops, the actual programme will be…
German electrical engineering student Tobias Lauxtermann has taken a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino MEGA and several other boards and bits and pieces and created a set of Christmas decorations that are controllable over the Internet. The Pi runs a Node.JS…
Raspberry Pi have just announced the publication of issue 65 of The MagPi and issue 2 of HackSpace Magazine. The MagPi focuses on providing a Pi newcomers guide and, amongst other highlights, they review the new pi-top version 2 (although I…
Gavan Fantom decided that new-fangled electronic LEDs weren’t enough for his office Christmas festivities. So, he came up with this beautiful 8×8 electro-mecahnical display. Each pixel is controlled by a 3D-printed mechanism that is screwed back and forth to change…
In recent Channel 4 documentary Guy Martin Versus the Robot Car, they had a need to construct a robotic teasmaid. Called R2‑Tea2, and built by Running in the Halls, the teasmaid uses an Adafruit 16-channel PCA9685 PWM/servo board (USA/UK) and 2 H-bridge DC…
Dr Adrian Rosebrock has written several tutorials on deep learning with Python image searches. Well, now he’s used a Raspberry Pi and deep-learning system Keras to develop a video stream detector that alerts you when Santa Claus enters the frame and…
Matt Hawkins has taken a reclaimed IKEA Gulliver table, added an old VGA monitor and loads of arcade buttons and created himself a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade console. He’s written the whole thing up over on his blog, Raspberry Pi Spy,…
Review by Tim Richardson What is it? The Anavi Light pHAT is a board that sits on top of your Raspberry Pi and controls 12v RGB light strips – not the expensive Neopixels or WS2811’s, but the cheap RGB strips…
The inimitable Mr Les Pounder has written up a brilliant project in which he utilises a string of Neopixel-like lights to give his Christmas Tree some blinky cheer. Soldered up on a ProtoZero board, the circuit requires a few bits…
