Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has been looking at the Energenie range of products and, more specifically, at a set of two sockets and control board that he bought. The control board, called the Pi-mote, is a GPIO…
Tucker Shannon has built himself a CNC wood burner rig and is using a Raspberry Pi to control the stepper motors that position the arm. He’s taken photographs of the build and you can see them here. A video is…
Pimoroni have today launched some educational project cards for their RainbowHAT add-on board. Rather than try and re-word their excellent prose, here’s what they have to say about the new product on their site: This beautifully-designed set of activity cards are…
Ben Nuttall has been having a go with the new Remoting facilities available on the v1.4 release of GPIO Zero. He’s used the virtual joystick on the SenseHAT emulator as the controller and then sent commands remotely to another Pi which has…
Stephen Lovely has just blogged a great interview with the creators of RetroPie, the retro gaming operating system for the Raspberry Pi. It’s really interesting and deals with the development of the software, the team behind it, trademark disputes and…
Katja Budnikov works for a company (shopping24) that has the occasional two-day hackfest where employees get to play around with new technology and come up with non-work related projects. (Sounds like fun!) For the current round of hacking, Katja’s team…
Martin Fitzpatrick has taken a Scroll pHAT and attached it to a Raspberry Pi Zero to create a Tetris game. He’s then added several buttons to allow the user to control the pieces to play the game. One would imagine this…
Logan Rickert wanted to bring a Raspberry Pi Zero into a penetration testing environment but in a covert manner. He decided to repurpose an old hard drive, fit the Zero inside and then power it from the 5V line of…
Richard Hayler likes to keep fit but his recent job change has meant that he unable to get to fitness sessions with an instructor. He now exercises in his back garden but wanted some way of having a visible and…
Maker and Educator Spencer Organ has recently re-launched his website and can now be found at www.themakercupboard.space. As part of the re-launch, he’s blogged about his latest project – a Spiderman-themed lamp which changes colour when he is mentioned in a…
