Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World’s famous Weasley Clock and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife,…
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A project to build a Raspberry Pi Zero-driven mobile phone
There have been several Raspberry Pi-powered mobile phone builds over the past few years (Tyler Spadgenske and David Hunt) but none have used the Pi Zero… until now. (Cue dramatic music). Arsenijs from Latvia has created the ZeroPhone, and he reckons it…
Accio Raspberry Pi! Control a gesture-sensitive lamp with a Harry Potter wand
This is the second Harry Potter project in as many days! See yesterday’s Daily Prophet animated picture frame here. Sean O’Brien from Make has taken a Raspberry Pi and a Particle Internet Button and embedded them inside a lamp base. Also…
Tea bag dunker uses a Raspberry Pi and an old CD drive
This made me giggle. 🙂 Andrey Chilikin has come up with a way of automating the tea brewing process by pressing into action an old CD/DVD drive and a Raspberry Pi. They use GPIO to trigger the motor on the drive…
Dude, Where’s My… Bus? A 3D-printed bus tracker housing a Raspberry Pi
Over at DesignSpark, Dr Lucy Rogers has written a great tutorial which fuses the Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, an ESP8266 module and some Neopixels into a bus warning system. The system has the following features: A visual alert to tell…
Self-playing wooden pipe organ uses a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Wendell Kapustiak has built a self-playing wooden pipe organ. The organ has 42 wooden pipes (representing 3.5 chromatic octaves). Each wooden pipe is different and had to be custom-cut to play the right note. A “blower” used to cool data centres…
DIY motorised skateboard controlled by Raspberry Pi Zero reaches speeds of 30km/h
Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has been around for ages, providing tutorial and other videos. Now, he has embarked upon his most ambitious project yet by building his own motorised skateboard, controlled (of course) by a Raspberry Pi.…
World of Light – an interactive map with a Raspberry Pi
Joshua Krosenbrink works for Usabilla and he has presented them with the World of Light, a map of the world represented by 426 RGB LEDs. The Raspberry Pi runs an API that is used to send data to affect the map…
New Zealander builds a Raspberry Pi-powered phone mast out of a printer
Here’s an oddity! Julian Oliver, a native of New Zealand, has taken an HP Laserjet 1320 and squeezed a Raspberry Pi 3 and a BladeRF x40 software-defined radio inside. He’s then written the necessary software for it to identify nearby mobile…
Build a chess computer via a noughts-and-crosses computer with a Raspberry Pi
Maxim has used a Raspberry Pi to create a chess computer and he’s documented the entire process. (The game) runs from an Arduino which controls the board, connected to a Raspberry PI which runs the chess engine Stockfish and a…