FIbbef wanted to enter the 2015 Game Boy Classic build-off. He came up with the idea of meshing together a Game Boy and an electric guitar. A plexiglass shell is the main body and inside is a Raspberry Pi running…
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Prototyping from down under – a review of the Wombat prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville, aka the Average Man, has just published his review of the Wombat Board. This board is ideal for prototyping and carries a full-sized breadboard, an analogue-to-digital converter and plenty of other bits and pieces. It was originally a…
Old gaming console converted into a Raspberry Pi retro machine
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old Grandstand Scramble gaming console and adapted it for use with the Raspberry Pi. He’s got a 5″ HDMI TFT screen (which gives a resolution of 800×480) for the display and used the Picade controller…
Rubik’s Cube solver to replace valuable Raspberry Pi employees
Sorry, that was a bit click-baity wasn’t it! 🙂 Today, the BBC are running a feature on robots and how they are expected, or at least strongly suggested, to replace certain careers. Here’s one of the articles they are running.…
Telecom Time Machine with a Raspberry Pi
The people over at Toymaker Television always like to start their projects by ‘building a time machine’. It’s kind of a broad statement, so we’ll ignore it for now. What they’ve done is to re-create an old retro computer with a Raspberry…
Use Kivy to create a touchscreen GUI on the Raspberry Pi display
When the new Raspberry Pi display launched on Tuesday one of the most exciting things for me was shown on the Raspberry Pi blog – a touch screen GUI written using a Python library called Kivy. The demo was done by the Foundation’s…
Roll-coins-down-a-ramp game with NodeRED and Raspberry Pi
9 year old LDR and his dad have written up their project. In this game, you roll coins down a ramp into a box that contains ‘islands’ of aluminium foil attempting to bridge the gaps across to the other side.…
Turning a fridge into a retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi
Daniel d’Entremont has done something faintly ridiculous. He’s taken a small, working fridge, cut a hole for a screen and some more holes for buttons and turned it into a Game Boy-lookalike console. He admits that it’s all a bit…
Raspberry Pi games emulator inside a SNES case
“severdhed” bought an old SNES for $10 and refurbished it with lots of cleaning and a new paint job. He then added a Pi and rigged the original buttons up to the GPIO. He added RetroPie to give the full…
Artificial pancreas for diabetics run by a Raspberry Pi
This blew me away when I read it. Seattle-based Dana Lewis suffers from Type 1 Diabetes, and has done since she was 14. One of the issues facing diabetics is that during the night, despite having all kinds of different…