Richard Saville, aka Average Man, has been testing out the ModMyPi PiOT relay board. He goes through the various functions of the board and even tries them out using a cheap Dremel-like hand drill… He does, however, point out that…
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Powering your Raspberry Pi from a LiPo the right way
Powering a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery isn’t a piece of cake. Fortunately, a couple of expert hackers have done the work for you by writing up the methods. Building on Daniel Bull’s work to power a Raspberry Pi from a…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Build a Gibsonian cyberdeck from a Raspberry Pi and a Commodore 64
D10D3 on Imgur (and Twitter) has taken an old (non-functioning) Commodore 64, a Raspberry Pi 3, various connectors and some custom-fabricated bits and pieces and created his very own version of the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 cyberdeck from cyberpunk author William Gibson’s Sprawl…
Real sketching with the Raspberry Pi – Blackstripes
Jeroen van Goor and Johan ten Broeke from the Netherlands saw a V-plotter on the Polargraph website and decided that they wanted their own version to create works of art. What they came up with was Blackstripes. Powered by a Raspberry Pi…
Turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB plug-in dongle
Hacker NODE has worked out that if you solder a full-sized USB male connector to the data USB pads and power/ground lines on a Raspberry Pi Zero, you can just plug the Zero into your PC like a dongle and…
Timelapse video photography with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Spencer Organ recently spoke at CamJam about his timelapse video rig (pictured above). It uses an Arduino in combination with the Raspberry Pi (and it’s associated camera module) to pan across a landscape, taking photographs every so often as defined…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Building an air drum kit with a Raspberry Pi and Wii controllers
David Pride, who previously created the wonderful motorised Connect 4 game (which handed me my butt at the Big Birthday Weekend), recently went to a car boot sale and found an “air drum” kit for £1. Taking this as inspiration, he…
Pack up your troubles in your old (gig) bag with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Martin Hertig took a guitar bag, hooked up an Arduino to the zips via conductive thread to make a MIDI controller and then added a Raspberry Pi into the mix to create his project, called Zippy. The Pi runs FluidSynth synthesizer…