A fantastic sculpture/musical instrument is currently being shown at various festivals in the United States. Le Attrata is an innovative fire sculpture created by Therm, made up of three stainless steel moths with 12-foot wingspans, set on top of 18-foot high spires. The…
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Scary Halloween hi-jinks with a spring-loaded scary mask driven by a Raspberry Pi
David Pride (he of the Pi-driven Connect 4 game along with other wonderful hacks!) has been at it again. In the hope of scaring the begeezus out of trick-or-treaters, he’s hooked up a motorised mechanism to his Pi that will launch…
Sort your Halloween candy using the Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Vision
Building on their earlier success with the Google Cloud Vision platform, the good people over at Dexter Industries have come up with a great way of sorting through chocolate bars for Halloween. Using a BrickPi and LEGO pieces, they’ve created an…
Derby Mini Maker Faire 2016 – thoughts and a highlights video
Today, I attended my first Maker Faire at the Silk Mill in Derby. Took a couple of hours to get there, and I have to say it was worth every minute of travel. Raspberry Pi highlights included Steve Upton and his…
Building a Raspberry Pi-powered Pokemon Pokedex
Philip Organ, a 12-year old, year 7 student from Birmingham. He has recently been captured by the Pokemon Go craze and wanted to bring a bit of Raspberry Pi know-how to the game. So, he took a Pi, added a…
Halloween disco ball costume runs from a drone battery and a Raspberry Pi
Wolfie wanted to build a costume for his 12-year old granddaughter for this Halloween. He settled on the idea of a giant wearable disco ball (as you do) and set about building it out of suspended ceiling hanger wire.…
ModMyPi PiOT relay board for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by Average Man and Raspberry Pi Spy
A while back, Jacob over at ModMyPi sent me a new board – a relay board designed to be used for IoT projects. I haven’t had a chance to use it myself yet, but I would like to feature it…
Raspberry Pi 3 inside a Wii U handheld console
Over at sudomod.com, banjokazooie has been sharing photographs of his latest build. It is a Wii U gamepad with the innards taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi 3 and some other components. He’s put RetroPie on the finished result…
Cheap as chips: the Raspberry Pi Zero in a botched-together games console
Just saw this over at The MagPi, so thought I’d share. Joe Foulkes wanted to create an as cheap-as-possible gaming console. So, he took an old Samsung Galaxy box, a Pi Zero, some prototyping board and some other components and…
Build a compact GPS logger with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Here’s a good one from Instructables’ user Postron. He’s taken a Pi Zero, an Adafruit GPS module, an Adafruit LiPo power board and a LiPo then constructed a circuit with buttons and resistors on prototyping board to create a portable…