The PiPiano is a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi which plugs into the GPIO header and gives you access to 13 buttons, 3 LEDs and a buzzer. It’s been designed to be used as a piano input device…
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Transmit FM audio from your Raspberry Pi – but be careful!
Tom Herbison has blogged about a way to use the Pi as an FM radio transmitter up to 250MHz. His tutorial does come with several warnings about what kind of signal the Pi is putting out, but includes ways around…
Spooky Raspberry Pi Halloween happenings in the Lost Gardens of Heligan
Phil Atkin met Stuart Pemberton a few weeks ago at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. They realised they were both fans of the Raspberry Pi and Stuart revealed a project that he’d been tasked to do: create a visitor attraction…
Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes!
Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there…
Adapter for the Raspberry Pi model B+’s audio jack
One of the possible issues with the model B+ is that the composite video output has been removed, to be replaced by a composite audio jack that provides both video and stereo audio output. WinkleInk has investigated and found an…
Sonic Pi – from humble beginnings to live coding on the Raspberry Pi
On 13th October, Dr Sam Aaron presented to the London Ruby Users Group about how Sonic Pi grew from a simple program producing beeps to being a live coding development environment that is installed by default on the Raspberry Pi.…
Speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi
Pete has done this great tutorial and list of instructions/code to create an speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi downloads headlines from the internet and then plays them back with whatever is connected to the 3.5mm audio…
Sonic Pi v2 coming to #RaspberryPi in August
Russell Barnes over at Raspi.today has done an interview with Dr Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi. In it, Sam says that the new version will be out in late August and that he already has plans for version 3! Read…
Vintage radio/Spotify with a #RaspberryPi
It seems there’s quite a fad for taking old stuff and putting a Pi inside. Here’s another one, this time from Imgur user mxmln23. He’s taken two vintage radios, used the best bits from both and added the Pi, and lots…
#RaspberryPi Rain Box
Instructables user Adum24 loves the sound of rain. So, he decided to build himself a box to play rain sounds. As you do. He thought a Raspberry Pi would be perfect for this so he got together some cheap powered…