Last year, Yasmin Curren was selected as one of the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists. On 23rd April, I attended the CTs exhibition at Raspberry Pi Towers and saw her project. It was an interactive video-based experience about monsters living under…
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Plant watering system using a Raspberry Pi
A self-confessed bunch of students and amateurs have put together a rather cool system for watering plants featuring some soil sensors, an analog to digital converter and a solenoid valve to release the water. You can read all about it,…
60 core supercomputer made out of Raspberry Pis
YouTube user Phaxmohdem has built a 15 Raspberry Pi 2 (60 core) supercomputer cluster into a portable toolbox. He is using a 300W power supply for it but it only draws about 45W when under full load. He’s done some benchmarks but…
Raspberry Pi controlled vegetable irrigation system
Ben Finio’s wife plants a large vegetable garden every year but eventually grows tired of maintaining it. I can sympathise. A lot. So, Ben decided that he could use a Raspberry Pi to automate the watering process. He has set…
Web-controlled Raspberry Pi robot with streaming video
James Poole, who recently gave us a great way to put a Raspberry Pi Zero inside a SNES controller, has branched out into robotics. He’s gone about it the old-fashioned way by using an H-bridge chip to drive two motors attached…
SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…
Infra-red baby monitor using the Raspberry Pi 3 and PiNoIR camera
Aaron Davies has posted his project up on the Element 14 website. In it, he creates a baby monitor using the a Raspberry Pi 3, a new Pi NoIR v2 camera module and some infra-red LEDs. He uses some software…
Autism-friendly big-screen media player based around a Raspberry Pi
Alain Mauer‘s son Scott is autistic, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t benefit from the cool stuff technology can do, nor should it! Alain decided that he wanted to set-up a media centre/player for his son but needed it…
Calculate Pi and print on a thermal printer from a Raspberry Pi
Billy has written an Instructable in which he explains how to calculate Pi in various ways before writing a method in Python code to do it. The result is then printed out on a thermal printer from Adafruit. The whole…
Emergency spaceship simulator game has a Raspberry Pi server
The boffins at York Hackspace have created a demonstration piece called SpaceHack for Maker Faires and other events that simulates an emergency situation onboard a spacecraft and then invites players to work together to keep it operating for as long as…