David Watts had an old Casio TV 880 unit and he wondered if he could use it as a display for a Raspberry Pi. The Casio has a composite input which can be used, and handily the Pi has a…
YouTube player uses an old Casio TV 880 and a Raspberry Pi Zero
Category: Making
Use an Altoids tin to create a portable Raspberry Pi Zero workstation
Matt Wagner has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a RedBear IoT HAT for wifi connectivity, a 2″ Adafruit screen and some power circuitry and fitted everything into an Altoids Tin, thus creating a portable Pi workstation. It’s even got a…
Get started with Node-RED with this worksheet from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
I’ve just spotted this new resource on the Raspberry Pi website’s resources section. It shows you how to get started with controlling the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins using visual programming language Node-RED. It’s a nice tutorial and helps you get…
Make an electronic name badge with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a PaPiRus
Josh King has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a PaPiRus 2″ e-ink HAT, an Adafruit Powerboost 1000c and a LiPo battery and made himself a name badge. He’s written the whole thing up as an Instructable which you can read here. Thanks to…
Raspberry Pi mini-laptop uses official 7″ screen
I’ve been waiting for this for a while: a laptop using the official 7″ screen for display. Surferboy has uploaded 3D printing files for this project which uses a Pi 3, a Rii keyboard and the official display which is…
Thermal-printing camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Over on Hackaday.io, Pierre Muth has documented his build of a Raspberry Pi Zero-based camera that prints photographs on an internal thermal printer. Called the PolaPi-Zero, it uses an Adafruit Nano Thermal Printer and some other parts as well as a 3D-printed case.…
Formula Pi laser timing rig using a Raspberry Pi – find out how it was done
Recently, robotics designer, manufacturer and retailer Pi Borg ran the first Formula Pi competition. For the competition, the used a laser timing rig to record the exact lap times of each robot. They also used a similar method at Pi…
Build your own spiral speaker with JustBoom and a Raspberry Pi
Recently, I reviewed the JustBoom AmpHAT and found it to be an excellent piece of kit for those that like their audio ‘just right’. Well, now it’s little brother, the Amp Zero pHAT has been used in a project that looks really lovely. Frederick…
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered thumb harp (English and French versions)
Here’s another tutorial, this time in the form of an Instructable, although it’s not for the ‘beginner’. It uses wires of different lengths, an accelerometer to detect different vibrations caused by plucking the wires and an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter chip to…
Harry Potter-inspired map-clock using a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Spencer Organ has been putting his making skills to use with this Harry Potter-inspired build. Taking his cue from both the Weasley Clock and the Marauders’ Map, he’s taken a Raspberry Pi, an Explorer HAT, an Arduino, some servos and…