Exciting news for those of you still without a Google AIY Project Kit that came free with The Mag Pi 57. Micro Center in the USA and Pimoroni in the UK have announced that they will be stocking the kit in…
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old motorised game, the Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard, embedded a Raspberry Pi inside and turned it into a fully-working Out Run games console. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post in which he describes…
Tinkernut has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module, added an 2.8″ Adafruit mini-touchscreen and a mini USB microphone and created a YouTube-streaming box. He’s programmed a touchscreen interface to allow him to preview the video and then added another…
In 1978, a tape-driven computer known as the Sharp MZ-80K was created. The MZ has a 2 MHz CPU, a massive 20 KB of RAM, and a built-in monochrome monitor. Just a few years later, in 1981, Yasushi Enari (Panda Precision),…
Tucker Shannon has built himself a CNC wood burner rig and is using a Raspberry Pi to control the stepper motors that position the arm. He’s taken photographs of the build and you can see them here. A video is…
Katja Budnikov works for a company (shopping24) that has the occasional two-day hackfest where employees get to play around with new technology and come up with non-work related projects. (Sounds like fun!) For the current round of hacking, Katja’s team…
Martin Fitzpatrick has taken a Scroll pHAT and attached it to a Raspberry Pi Zero to create a Tetris game. He’s then added several buttons to allow the user to control the pieces to play the game. One would imagine this…
Richard Hayler likes to keep fit but his recent job change has meant that he unable to get to fitness sessions with an instructor. He now exercises in his back garden but wanted some way of having a visible and…
Maker and Educator Spencer Organ has recently re-launched his website and can now be found at www.themakercupboard.space. As part of the re-launch, he’s blogged about his latest project – a Spiderman-themed lamp which changes colour when he is mentioned in a…
Dan Aldred took a LEGO mini figure alarm clock in the shape of everyone’s favourite Sith Lord and turned it into an MP3 player. Using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, Pimoroni Speaker pHAT and some buttons, together with some Python code…
