Over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, they are featuring the work of John Shovic who has automated a way to keep his cat entertained. Using a pair of motors and some detection sensors, he has set up his Pi…
Category: Silliness
Animatronics and a #RaspberryPi come together to make art
Pierre Raufast has recently exhibited a piece of artwork in Berlin during the Pictoplasma 2014 Festival. In it, a pair of animatronic eyes identify people walking past and follow them. If there isn’t anyone there, the eyes search around for someone.…
New advert from RS Components features a #RaspberryPi
Electronics (and Pi) distributor RS Components has just launched this new video to advertise their wares, and it features a Raspberry Pi. It’s worth a watch just to put a smile on your face!
Talking C-3PO with a #RaspberryPi
Canada-based Luc Gallant had a problem. It’s a problem that many of us have faced: He has a bust of C-3PO and he wanted to make it talk. So, he took a Raspberry Pi and a few other components and…
The State of the Toilet with the #RaspberryPi
Just spotted this on the Foundation’s blog. Callum Jefferies and a few of his colleagues over at Made by Many decided to take the Internet of Things a bit too far. By hooking up some reed switches to a Raspberry Pi…
Setting up your #RaspberryPi with Johnny Ball!
Childhood legend to the over-30s Johnny Ball has kindly donated his time to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to voice their new video about setting up the Raspberry Pi. It tells you everything you need to know about what goes where…
Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi
Jordan Balagot has created a robot that shoots mini Nerf darts. She’s used a “Romo” robot for transport and the Raspberry Pi for control of the servo that fires the gun. Take a look at the video below or view…
#RaspberryPi powered dartboard
Hopefully the headline alone should have got you intrigued. Daniel Fett from Germany has developed a digital dartboard (PiDart) where the dart hits are registered by an Arduino Mega and then sent to the Pi which records the hits and…
Pinewood Derby race track with the #RaspberryPi
Over at Make they’re doing a Raspberry Pi birthday series of articles, so I thought I’d bring them to the attention of my blog readers. The first one is from a guy called Ryan Slaugh. He’s used a Pi and…
Mission Control desk is powered by a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Jeff Highsmith has solved the problem of needing to obtain a desk on which his son can do his homework – and with some style. By using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino together, he has created a Mission Control…