Brian Corteil is a regular at both CamJam and Potton Pi & Pints. He often brings along his ‘naughty and nice’ machine which magically detects, when you insert your hand, whether you’ve been naughty or nice. Ideal for Christmas time –…
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Internet Meme-themed Raspberry Pi Pinball machine
Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the…
Raspberry Pi Hamster Fitness Tracker
Jamie Bailey from Initial State wanted to find out how far his 9-year-old daughter’s hamster ran. He came up with a great way of measuring it using a laser (and who doesn’t love lasers!). Find out how they did it here.
A typical profile for Raspberry Pi users?
Internet-based market research firm YouGov has conducted a poll of 126 Raspberry Pi users and used their responses to generate a ‘profile’ of the typical user. At 126, it’s not very scientific… although admittedly it is quite accurate if you’re…
Scary Pi-ano with a Raspberry Pi and Makey Makey
Stewart Watkiss (aka Penguin Tutor) has posted details of his 9-year old daughter’s Halloween project. It uses a Makey Makey and conductive Playdough to send commands to a Raspberry Pi which then plays (via Scratch) various sounds and generates lighting…
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…
Interview with Raspberry Pi R2-D2 creator
Andrew Langley hacked an R2-D2 model and added a Raspberry Pi and a projector. I covered this previously on my blog. Now Linux User and Developer have tracked Andrew down and interviewed him on their website. Read the interview here. Full specs…
Raspberry Pi-powered pumpkin
It’s almost Halloween. Joy. Allen Heard has taken a pumpkin, a Pi and a Pibrella and mixed it with some other basic electronics to create a scary object to sit on his doorstep. Here’s a video of it and you…
Fisher Price talking chatter smartphone with built-in Raspberry Pi
Grant Gibson has taken a child’s toy and turned it into a talking internet-enabled device. The main body is made out of a Fisher Price Chatterphone, made popular by Toy Story 3, and inside is the Pi and some basic electronics…
#RaspberryPi and Makey Makey join together for cheese-related madness
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted about a cool little project. Conor O’Neill has taken a Pi and a Makey Makey, used cheese as input devices, and used them to send remote control commands over Bluetooth to an RC…