This is a nice tutorial from Adafruit. They’ve taken several of their own products (as they normally do) and created a physical dashboard with lots of digital numeric readouts and even a swingometer that uses a motor to move an…
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Solar power meets steampunk with this Raspberry Pi / Nixie tube mash-up
Paul Parry from Bad Dog Designs took a 1930s Vickers combined voltmeter and ammeter, refurbished it, added the Nixie tubes and then added a Raspberry Pi which translated the data coming in from his solar panels into something usable by the tubes.…
Word clock with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Nice to see projects being built with the Zero now. David Saul set himself a project over Christmas: a ‘word clock’. For this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero and a MAX7219 chip. A ‘word clock’ is a clock made up…
Magic Mirror uses Raspberry Pi and widgets
Dylan Pierce has created a ‘magic mirror’ for his girlfriend. As well as showing a reflection, it also displays various widgets such as the time, weather etc. The whole thing is powered by a Raspberry Pi which is projected through ‘two…
Track the next high tide with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. He has taken one of his prototyping boards (the ProtoPal) and the components contained in the RasPiO 7 segment display kit and created a…
Raspberry Pi-controlled oven
Gordon loves baking and he wanted to remotely access and control the temperature. So, he took a Raspberry Pi model A+, an Adafruit HAT-sized prototyping board and some thermocouples and hooked it all up to his oven. You can read the full story…
Raspberry Pi DOTs boards now available
The DOTs board, designed by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is now available to buy online. The board, which uses conductive paint in a dot-to-dot fashion, is supplied with a plugin for Minecraft Pi Edition which will draw the outline of…
Run a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery
Daniel Bull has written up some excellent instructions for wiring up and soldering an Adafruit PowerBoost LiPo charger onto a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a Zero for this initial hack but you should be able to use any Raspberry Pi (the lower-powered…
Looking inside a standard “yellow motor”
Richard (aka Average Man) used to like taking things apart when he was a youngster. This tendency has not diminished with age and he’s turned his attention to one of those standard “yellow motors”, such as those that come with…
Extreme teardown of the Raspberry Pi Zero
The guys over at electronupdate have taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and stripped various components off it, put it under a microscope and tried to find out what makes it tick. Here’s the video: