Over on Imgur, user Ryzee119 has documented the process of turning a GameBoy Advance into a Pi-powered retro gaming console. Chosen primarily because of the shoulder buttons, the GBA has had its guts ripped out and replaced by a couple of custom…
Category: Making
Using wireless modules with a Raspberry Pi to create a (very) active button game
Albert Hickey wanted to create a game for kids which would get them running around. So, he conceived a button-pressing game where buttons, mounted on tubes, would light up and need to be pressed to score points. This was similar…
Plasma CNC machine uses a Raspberry Pi as its brains
Will Baden from Nebraska has developed a plasma CNC machine (which is similar to a regular CNC router but uses plasma) to help him to build and make BIG things. The table controller is a GRBL shield attached to an…
Hand weaver gets a Raspberry Pi assisting loom
Fred Hoefler has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered motorised assistant for a hand weaver. The problem with hand weaving is that it is hard on the hands and arms and older weavers are often unable to continue their work due to…
Raspberry Pi used to monitor and brew the perfect cup of tea
James P is on a quest. A quest many of us have embarked upon without success. Not for the Holy Grail, no. Something much more important: The perfect cup of tea! He explains: (It is a project) designed to brew delicate…
Build your own solar-powered weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Brian Masney has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and hooked up a load of sensors to create a weather station. He has fixed solar panels to the top for power and the sensors include ones for wind speed and direction, rain, temperature,…
Build a retro radio that talks in riddles with a Raspberry Pi
Designed to be part of an ‘escape room’, the Retro Radio Riddle is a retro radio set with it’s insides taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi and some custom circuitry. As the user twists the dial, they find…
Raspberry Pi Zero helps to build a better Karaoke machine
Frustrated with an inability to find a cost-effective karaoke machine with enough useful features to make it workable, Harry Gonzalez-Rivera decided to take a cheaper karaoke machine and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside. He added a USB audio card and wi-fi adapter,…
Physical sequencer merges Raspberry Pi, Arduino, a toy glockenspiel and LEGO to create something magical
Hong Kong-based modulogeek has taken his toddler’s toy glockenspiel and created an servo-motor based control for it. He has then fused this with a monome interface device which is controlled by the Raspberry Pi running the Python sequencer code. Together, he has…
Follow along with this excellent PSP / Raspberry Pi Zero build
Over at OtherMod.com, the blog owner has been tearing down and rebuilding a Sony PSP and retrofitting it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I love projects like this: taking broken technology and using some Pi magic to make it usable…