James McCullen has taken inspiration from a 1930s Looney Tunes short film called Hold Anything and created a custom ‘typewriter’ that plays cartoon sound effects. He recorded the effects himself and then copied them to a Raspberry Pi which was then…
Kerry Scharfglass was finding typical portable computers difficult to work with in confined spaces, such as on a plane or on a train. So, he decided to build his own which he called the Commute Deck. The main chassis is…
Mathieu Bonte has written a great Instructable in which he creates a model house and then wires up a Raspberry Pi to various lamps to light the model. In the Instructable, he takes you through wiring it all up, via…
Texas-based Computer Scientist Estefannie has rigged up a GoPro camera to take photographs of herself. The GoPro cable is fed into a backpack which houses a Raspberry Pi 3. The Pi has a GPS board connected to it and calculates the…
James West‘s son is a big Doctor Who fan. So, his dad decided to build him a classic series-inspired K9 toy. He purchased some acrylic sheets and some other material and then fitted inside a Raspberry Pi Zero W with…
My apologies for the lack of updates recently. I had a bit of a health problem involving a medication imbalance and it meant I couldn’t concentrate on anything but the bare essentials. I’ve also been busy rehearsing for a new musical…
Daniel Fernandez has taken a Raspberry Pi, a Polar H7 heart sensor and a 3.5″ screen and created a heart monitoring system. The system allows you to wear the sensor, which sends readings to the Raspberry Pi which then graphs…
Tanya, from Sheffield maker company Pimoroni, wanted to celebrate the Eurovision Song Contest in style and decided to create a wearable. What she came up with was a Crown based on a headband, some cardboard and plenty of bits of…
Shashank Sharma and his team have developed a backpack to aid visually-impaired users. The backpack, called BackMap, uses an app to input the location you’re trying to get to and then Raspberry Pi-powered motors attached to the straps vibrate to tell…
Here’s a great Instructable for those who are a bit put-off by soldering. It’s a full RetroPie gaming machine, with button controls, that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero. However, no soldering, 3D printing or laser-cutting is required – just some…
