Craig Argh has posted a great tutorial on using a capacitive touch sensor breakout board, 5 potatoes and the Pi. Sounds insane, but it’s a great way to learn about capacitance and how to use strange objects to control your…
Category: Silliness
#RaspberryPi-powered t-shirt cannon
Yes, you read that right. A cannon that fires t-shirts. Controlled by a Pi. Very cool. Very silly. Read about it here
Talking reindeer decoration with a #RaspberryPi
They produce a lot of good material over at Penguin Tutor and it’s well worth keeping an eye out for new stuff. This tutorial is a bit of fun – they’ve taken a reindeer head decoration from HobbyCraft and outfitted…
Internet-controlled #RaspberryPi Christmas decoration using PiRingo @4tronix_uk
Introduction The PiRingo is a lovely little board from 4tronix. It has a ring of 12 LEDs and two switches and is plugged directly into the GPIO socket of the Pi. It comes in 5 different flavours (which are basically…
#RaspberryPi enabled Christmas Lights
Shabaz over on the Element14 community has created a very complex project which allows his Pi to control his Christmas lights. This required a fair bit of electronics knowledge to accomplish. Read more at Element14
#RaspberryPi Gingerbread House
Anders Wikström has created a gingerbread house and then added an Adafruit RGB LED pixels strand. The Pi controls them and he’s built an interface using socket.io to control them remotely.
What Everyone Needs: a #RaspberryPi internet-controlled Whoopee Cushion
Over on Element 14’s Pi community, a user called “oneleggedredcow” has written scripts and a how-to-do-it tutorial for creating an internet-controlled fart cushion. Read how to do this ridiculous thing 🙂
Ardent Mobile Cloud Platform uses the #RaspberryPi
Beth at scanlime has blogged about a pretty insane project that uses a Raspberry Pi at it’s core. They’ve basically taken a forklift and built a ‘cloud’ on the end of the lifter with loads of lights inside and used…
RasPi.TV shows the power of the PiHub by running 4 #RaspberryPi
Following a question on the Raspberry Pi Foundation forum, Alex Eames has decided to stress test the brand new PiHub by powering 4 Pis at once from the little raspberry-shaped device. Read his post and watch the video here It is,…
Missing cat found using a #RaspberryPi
A nice practical Pi project, this one. This Pi enthusiast was worried that one of his 5 cats had disappeared. (Aside: Why would anyone want 5 cats? 5??? Anyway…) So, with the theory that the cat returned at night…