Those of us who were lucky enough to get hold of the new issue of The MagPi, with the AIY project give-away, have been beavering away over the weekend trying to get our cardboard boxes to understand a word we’re…
Tejas Ozarkar has fashioned this stylish music player from a Raspberry Pi, some perfboard, some sensors and a bit of wiring. The circuit he’s built allows you to increase and decrease the volume (by raising/lowering your hand above an ultrasonic…
Pickles is one lucky dog. Not only does he have two owners who dote on him (and miss him when they’re not there!), one of those owners, Eric Page, decided to build a Raspberry Pi-controlled treat dispenser. The idea is…
Music artist otem rellik (Toby Hendricks) has built an amazing musical instrument. It is a music samples looper that he created to replace his iPad for live performances. It features a Raspberry Pi 3 running Pure Data and a Teensy 3.6 for…
I don’t often link directly to YouTube videos – I prefer it when people build content posts around the videos to flesh them out a bit. However, this one was too good to pass up. The guys over at Tinkernut have posted…
I love a bit of steampunk, so this laptop caught my eye. Okay, so maybe you’d never want it on your lap, per se, but it’s still absolutely gorgeous. “Phrazelle” is the mind behind it and he created it for…
At the Pi Party, the lovely people from Pi Borg turned up with an ickle, tiny, tiny robot called BoB, aka The Bot of Bits. Made from a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Zumo Chassis, together with their new Thunderborg…
Mark Norwood is a beginner at hacking and making, so he says, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking on this project to take an off-the-shelf robot spider and control it from a Raspberry Pi. He took two of the spider…
Gareth, over at 4tronix, has been busy of late, developing the Playground system. Playground is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, Crumble and micro:bit that allows you to quickly and easily connect up various inputs and outputs using cables…
Dr. Bailey Shen and Dr. Shizuo Mukai from the USA have developed a prototype camera unit that can be used by opticians to take photos of your retina. Normally, pupil-dilating eyedrops are required to do this, causing blurriness and headaches afterwards.…
