So you want to watch Netflix on the television, dim your lights and order pizza at the same time? At the push of a button? Well, now you can with this nifty project that’s been put up on the Netflix…
Category: Making
Raspberry Pi-controlled air pollution art project erected in Chelmsford
Victoria Button has just seen the completion of the installation of her art project at a shopping centre in Chelmsford. The project, which is at the High Chelmer shopping centre, seeks to highlight the issue of air pollution in our environment and…
Tracking the position of Boston’s underground trains on the wall using a Raspberry Pi
MIT student Ian Reynolds has a fascination with the Greater Boston transit system, and more specifically MBTA’s T subway. So, he brought together a bunch of LED strips, an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi to create some wall art for his bedroom…
Wireless FM radio microphone built using a Raspberry Pi
Removed as it is illegal in the UK to broadcast on FM at this kind of strength.
Controlling air conditioning using a Raspberry Pi and a Microsoft Band
As part of the IoT Zone over at Dzone.com, Joost van Schaik has written up his ‘air conditioning’ project which uses the Microsoft Windows 10 Core IoT operating system to read the temperature in a room and then activate a fan if…
Remote-control lawnmower powered by a Raspberry Pi
A recent 24-hour StartFEST hackathon has awarded first prize to three brothers from Salt Lake City, Utah. Dan, Doug and David Leonard used a Raspberry Pi to control wheels connected to two drill motors that propelled a lawnmower across the garden. They…
Raspberry Pi space invaders comes to Cambridge Makespace
The workshops run by HackLab UK are among the newest additions to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam and have so far also proven to be the most popular and successful. This Saturday (26th), HackLab will be at the Cambridge Makespace at…
Make your own set of piano stairs with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino
Back in November 2013, Bonnie Eisenman and her team used light sensors and torches to create a set of musical stairs at Princeton: The team have now written up the project as an Instructable so you can create your very own…
Make your own weather station with some sensors and a Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Art installation in a French railway station uses a Raspberry Pi and over 16,000 LEDs
Fred Sapey-Triomphe and Yann Guidon were hired to liven up the entrance to a temporary railway station in Mons, France. The project is called ElectroSuper and is comprised of a 42m long ceiling screen made out of six sections containing 2800…