Piet Rullens Jr visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and brought back loads of video footage. He wanted to do something special with the footage so he designed a copy of the Wizarding World’s Daily Prophet to be framed. Behind the frame, he mounted…
The Foundation have just announced the first theme for their Pioneers scheme – comedy! That’s right, teams must develop and hack together something which will make people laugh! Pioneers is the Foundation’s latest attempt to engage with young makers. The scheme is…
NinjaBunny9000 has created a life-sized replica of BMO from Adventure Time. The case is 3D printed and the buttons on the front are routed via the innards of a generic SNES controller. The battery can last for around 24 hours…
This made me giggle. 🙂 Andrey Chilikin has come up with a way of automating the tea brewing process by pressing into action an old CD/DVD drive and a Raspberry Pi. They use GPIO to trigger the motor on the drive…
Naomi Wu, aka SexyCyborg, has created a fabulous cosmetics case which conceals within it a penetration test kit driven by a Raspberry Pi running Kali Linux. Called the Pi Palette, it is a 3D-printed (rather large) box which looks to…
The guys over at YouTube channel Hacker House have used a Raspberry Pi as the brains behind a motion tracking, nerf gun turret. They’ve published a video which shows you how to build the turret and install the software. There…
David Pride (he of the Pi-driven Connect 4 game along with other wonderful hacks!) has been at it again. In the hope of scaring the begeezus out of trick-or-treaters, he’s hooked up a motorised mechanism to his Pi that will launch…
Building on their earlier success with the Google Cloud Vision platform, the good people over at Dexter Industries have come up with a great way of sorting through chocolate bars for Halloween. Using a BrickPi and LEGO pieces, they’ve created an…
Just saw this over at The MagPi, so thought I’d share. Joe Foulkes wanted to create an as cheap-as-possible gaming console. So, he took an old Samsung Galaxy box, a Pi Zero, some prototyping board and some other components and…
Picap is a new product from Bare Conductive. It gives an easy way to connect up wires to your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins (via crocodile clips) and is designed to receive input from conductive sources. They sent me one recently, so…
