Michael Darby wanted to make something like a Star Trek combadge that would respond to voice commands. He took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pimoroni Speaker pHAT, a momentary touch sensor breakout board, some power circuitry and a USB microphone…
Gus has written up a way to make a Raspberry Pi act as an AirPlay receiver. He uses a piece of open source software called Shairport Sync to do it. As he comments, it’s a quick-and-cheap way of getting some speakers wirelessly…
Dan Aldred took a LEGO mini figure alarm clock in the shape of everyone’s favourite Sith Lord and turned it into an MP3 player. Using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, Pimoroni Speaker pHAT and some buttons, together with some Python code…
Music artist otem rellik (Toby Hendricks) previously created a live performance music looper. This time, he’s focused on creating a touch-sensitive musical instrument and beneath the hood is a Raspberry Pi. You can see it in action above and hopefully he’ll do…
Giles Booth has recently been rediscovering the Flotilla range from Pimoroni. By putting together various components, such as the Flotilla dock, a slider, a touch-button add-on and an 8×8 matrix, he’s created an internet radio. The back-end is MPC and…
pi-top have just announced the launch of the pi-topPULSE. This innovative add-on board (HAT-compatible) for the Raspberry Pi sports the following features: 7×7 RGB LED matrix array 2-watt 4Ω speaker which is powered through an I2S amplifier Microphone (200Hz to…
Alex Eames has reviewed the Pimoroni Pirate Radio kit which features a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The kit, which requires assembly, costs £40 and includes the Zero W and most of the parts you need inside a nice project box.…
Bomani, Eunice, and Matt have created a project called Waves which allows you to see the spoken word in printed form. A set of colour-coded questions is posed and you are then invited to answer them whilst pressing a colour-coded button.…
James McCullen has taken inspiration from a 1930s Looney Tunes short film called Hold Anything and created a custom ‘typewriter’ that plays cartoon sound effects. He recorded the effects himself and then copied them to a Raspberry Pi which was then…
UK-based Ktinkerer recently got hold of the AIY Project Kit that came free with MagPi issue #57. She’s already successfully added some custom actions to it, based on the instructions given by Google and The MagPi. So, here are links to…
