Ryan Walmsley has taken an old claw machine and retro-fitted a Raspberry Pi to control it. A custom controller board (pictured below) gives him 2 dual H-bridges to drive the three motors on the X, Y and Z axis and some…
Raspberry Pi Press (an arm of Raspberry Pi Trading) has just announced the launch of their new monthly magazine: HackSpace. In summary: HackSpace is the new monthly magazine for people who love to make things and those who want to…
Joe Birch‘s family is predisposed to failing eyesight. As a result, he decided to build the BrailleBox – a motorised Braille creation device which reads in online news stories and converts them into patterns for the blind. Solenoids were used…
Tijuana Rick’s father-in-law found a 1969 Wurlitzer 3100 Jukebox, for free but without the original 45s. Together, they refurbished the Jukebox and then set about turning it into a media centre. They used an Arduino Mega to read button presses which…
Back in March 2017, Alex Eames ran a Kickstarter for RasPiO InsPiRing, a system that enabled you to ‘sculpt lights with RGB LED shapes’. TL;DR – I got the Pyramid bundle in the Kickstarter, had great fun soldering it up and…
Over on Reddit, ecefour posted about his project in which he’s squeezed a Raspberry Pi Zero W, various other electrical components and a screen inside a Texas Instruments TI-83+ calculator. He’s got it running RetroPie and he’s wired the calculator…
David Pride has taken a Raspberry Pi, a ZeroBorg motor controller, a disassembled Nerf gun and a robot chassis and made a drive-able shooting platform. He’s used several skills here, including 3D printing, to get the desired result and you…
A team from Isobar, representing Coca-Cola Sweden, have hit on a cool idea to get people to experiment with Swedish dialects and it uses a Raspberry Pi. The Dialekt-o-maten is situated on a busy high street in Stockholm and challenges visitors…
Joe Herman has taken an old film projector, a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a stepper motor and created a machine that will help to convert 8mm and 16mm film reels into a digital format. He had to re-focus…
Frederick Vandenbosch has taken a Raspberry Pi 3 and an Official Touch Screen and created a ‘connected picture frame’. The frame displays pictures which are periodically downloaded from Dropbox and allows the user to ‘like’ individual photos, thus indicating their…
