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.…
Category: Making
German inventor builds humanoid-like robot with a Raspberry Pi
With Pi Wars coming up this weekend, I thought I’d share with you a post from Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi about the GeRo, a humanoid robot that is controller by a Pi. German inventor Johannes Jaegers took inspiration from the Rapiro…
RasPiO Inspiring – a couple of real-life demos on the Raspberry Pi and my opinion
As you’ll know if you’ve read this blog recently, or seen the side-widget, Alex Eames recently launched a new Kickstarter. Called RasPiO Inspiring, it’s a collection of geometric shapes with powerful ultra-bright APA102 LEDs that you can use to create sculptures…
Fun and a hidden game with the ScrollBot from Pimoroni and a Raspberry Pi Zero W
Carl Monk has produced plenty of cool hacks in the past, and this time he’s had fun with a Pimoroni Scroll Bot kit. The new kit from the pirates includes the new Scroll pHAT HD (which has more LEDs than the…
Make your stairs blinky and respond to the weather with ultra-bright LEDs and a Raspberry Pi
CAS co-ordinator Lorraine Underwood wanted to add some bling to her staircase. So she turned to a strip of Neopixel-type LEDs and a Raspberry Pi Zero. She added a weather feed so that different parts of the staircase light up depending…
New Kickstarter encourages you to sculpt with RGB LEDs and a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, DigiSpark and Wemos
Alex Eames (from RasPi.TV and Rasp.io) has run several Kickstarters and his new one looks to be his best yet. His new campaign is called RasPiO Inspiring. It is a new system for ‘sculpting with RGB LEDs’ and is made…
Making legal firecrackers with a Raspberry Pi
Dr Lucy Rogers has put together a great tutorial for those who like their projects smokin’! She’s taken a Raspberry Pi, some pieces of plastic tubing, some Neopixels, some speakers for the ‘cracking’ sound and an electronic cigarette and created some totally legal fake…
This Raspberry Pi Zero piano is one tough musical instrument!
Brian McEvoy wanted to create a musical instrument that could withstand a lot of physical punishment and abuse. So, he designed a piano called the Tough Pi-ano, which could be played using arcade buttons. Each octave of the piano has a Raspberry…
Enormous art installation in Boston uses a Raspberry Pi to control a block of blinkies
In Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway, twenty-four sentinels have appeared in a 2001-kind of way. They are called Light Blades and overlook the parks of the Wharf District. The lights inside the blades react to text messages sent to a specific…
This Fallout 4 terminal has a Raspberry Pi inside
The folks over at Power Up Props have 3D printed and painted this lovely Fallout 4-style terminal and given it a Raspberry Pi heart. It’s more a 3D printing project than a Raspberry Pi project, but it’s always nice to…