Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has created a brilliant showpiece for Jams and other events. He’s taken a robot arm controlled by 6 servos and hooked it up to an ABelectronics servo controller board. He added a NiMH battery to…
Category: Programming
Raspberry Pi Music Box – my own project
For a long time, I’ve wanted to do a project which involved two of my passions: the Raspberry Pi and music. I’ve seen several projects which have successfully managed it, in particular the Joytone which used lots of joysticks to create…
Controlling a MeArm with the Raspberry Pi and the Picon Zero
I recently reviewed the Picon Zero from 4tronix. It’s a motor controller board with the ability to drive six servos and two DC motors. It’s a great little board and Robin Newman has done something with it that just appeals…
Boston college gets a Raspberry Pi powered map system
A Boston-based college project team has worked together to build a map system for one of their halls. Fulton Hall in Boston College has a confusing layout so they took a Raspberry Pi and a touch screen and then worked…
Set-up Raspberry Pi Zero OTG without a keyboard, mouse, screen etc
Andrew Mulholland previously posted about using the Raspberry Pi Zero over USB OTG, i.e. programming a Zero over just a USB cable from another machine such as a laptop. Thanks to some improvements to the Raspbian operating system and a…
Use an analog to digital converter to get analog sensor readings on the Raspberry Pi
Gus over at PiMyLifeUp has done a great tutorial on using the “famous” MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter chip to read values from a light-dependent resistor. He goes through wiring it up and programming it using the spidev Python library. I prefer the…
Wizard Chess with the Raspberry Pi
Bethanie Fentiman is an 18 year old who, faced with delivering some A-level coursework, thought that she’d take inspiration from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorceror’s Stone and create a real-life version of Wizard Chess! First of all, she used an Instructable to…
A digital cross stitch picture created with a Raspberry Pi
Andrew Kleindolph from San Francisco has created a piece of digital artwork using cross stitch. But this isn’t any ordinary cross stitch: it’s all digital. Surrounded by a lovely wooden frame, the screen displays a message received by SMS, converting it into…
Random Simpsons episode from a Raspberry Pi Zero
Some things just need to be made. This is obviously what Stephen Coyle must have thought when he created this simple Simpsons episode shuffler with a Raspberry Pi Zero. When you press the yellow (naturally) button on top, the Pi…
SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…