This is the second Harry Potter project in as many days! See yesterday’s Daily Prophet animated picture frame here. Sean O’Brien from Make has taken a Raspberry Pi and a Particle Internet Button and embedded them inside a lamp base. Also…
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Animated elf-on-a-shelf using a Dexter Industries servo board and a Raspberry Pi
The folks over at Dexter Industries have taken an elf-on-a-shelf, their PivotPi servo controller board, a servo and an ultrasonic distance sensor and built an animated elf that reacts and waves when someone approaches it. It’s very cute and you…
New issue of Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi is out with a live booting Raspbian/PIXEL DVD!
Table-top Tetris game from York uses a Raspberry Pi 2 for retro gaming goodness
John Cooper from York Hackspace has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. It uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to control strips of Neopixel-like LEDs which sit in little foam cube holes beneath the translucent tabletop surface. It’s low-resolution but it…
Get started with Android Things on the Raspberry Pi 3
Harry Fairhead over at i-programmer.info has written a nice getting started guide for Android Things, the new Java-based platform for the Raspberry Pi 3. He covers getting the image installed on the Pi and the initial connection, before going on to…
Great collection of Raspberry Pi project resources from Les Pounder
Synchronised Raspberry Pi-driven Christmas light show brings some pizzazz to a radio station
Alec Connolly, who attends the University of Toledo majoring in electrical engineering, has recently been interning at a company called iHeartMedia. He was tasked by one of the directors with creating a Christmas light show that would sync with their radio…
Using an old television to create a Raspberry Pi fireplace
Jaret Burkett from Texas has taken an old television and placed it behind a fire grate. He’s then hooked up a Raspberry Pi to the TV, downloaded a fireplace video from YouTube and then looped it on the Pi. The…
Slack client for the Commodore 64 uses Raspberry Pi to connect to the outside world
Jeff Harris recently identified a severe problem with Slack: there isn’t a client for the Commodore 64. I know, crazy, huh? So, he decided to write one in 6502 assembly. Using a C64 Userport device, he’s connected the Commodore to a…
Creating a piece of Raspberry Pi powered Neopixel light furniture
James Poole has taken a string of Neopixels (UK/USA) and hooked it up to an Arduino. He’s then taken a Raspberry Pi and used it to control the Arduino via a web interface. James then mounted the whole lot on…