Mark Sanders took a popcorn popping machine and converted it for use as a coffee bean roaster. However, he needed to slow the roasting cycle down a bit for the optimum taste sensation. So, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi…
Category: Making
Electronics for Kids – book review
Wiley sent me this book as well as Adventures in Coding. I’m free to give an honest opinion. Introduction Electronics for Kids is a rather nice full-colour publication by Cathleen Shamieh. It seeks to give kids (or beginner adults) an…
Raspberry Pi Zero with accelerometer and tiny, tiny screen
Jeremy Lee has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and connected up an accelerometer sensor. He’s then written a driver to allow the sensor to act as a mouse and then recorded himself looking around a Minecraft world that is displayed…
Build a wearable time-lapse camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Adafruit has published a tutorial on creating a time-lapse camera using a Pi Zero, a camera module, a bit of power circuitry, a micro button and a 3D-printed case. Lovely project if you’ve got the 3D printing capability. Take a…
Mini persistence of vision rig using a Raspberry Pi Zero
Francesco Vannini has written a great tutorial which shows you how to create a persistence-of-vision device using a few components like an old CD, a PC fan, a battery and a hand-crafted LED bar. You can get some great results from…
Strapping on a Raspberry Pi Zero to a drone!
Finnian Anderson and his friend Ben James took Ben’s 250-class racing drone out for a spin. Before they did this, however, they used a lot of electrical tape to attach a Pi Zero and camera module. A little bit of start-up magic…
Introduction to LiPo batteries by Average Man – definitely worth reading
Richard Saville (Average Man) saw a lot of people at Pi Wars 2015 using LiPo batteries to power their robots. He had always heard of the dangers of using these batteries and was more than a little wary of doing…
Finish off your Raspberry Pi Game Boy Zero with this guide
Wermy, who created the Game Boy Zero, has been blogging a how-to guide that shows you how to create your very own device using an old Game Boy and various parts. He has now finished the guide and you can read…
Embedding a Raspberry Pi Zero in a Robosapien
The good old Robosapien gets a Raspberry Pi brain in this great write-up from Carl Monk. The Zero is used to interface with the IR port to enable him to control the robot via wifi. Read more here and see the…
Create a two-person nuclear activation device with Raspberry Pi
Dylan Schuster over at losant.com has taken two Raspberry Pi 3s and hooked them up to two custom turn-key-and-button boxes. He’s then used Losant’s new MQTT and REST clients to make them Internet of Things devices. By sending messages from the…