Dave Hunt’s bathroom didn’t have extractor fans fitted when the house was originally built. He decided to overkill the problem by having a Raspberry Pi control some new fans he fitted. He uses AM2302 humidity sensors to detect the moisture…
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Walnut-cased Raspberry Pi model A+ gaming consoles
Love Hulten is a Swedish designer and craftsman who loves to fuse together technology and more traditional materials. He’s just unveiled his latest two creations. The first is called the PE358 and is inspired by the Game Boy Advance. It…
Piro – a two-wheeled balancing robot
Finland-based Patrick Aalto has been working this summer on a two-wheeled balancing robot powered by a Raspberry Pi. On 16th August, he achieved his first successful balancing. You can see a video of it below: He’s blogged about the build and…
Fireflies come alive in this art installation controlled by Raspberry Pi
Making it’s debut in the Olympus Photography Playground in Vienna in February 2015, Neon Golden’s art installation “Swarm” mimics the behaviour of fireflies via LEDs which are strung from the ceiling at various different heights. Using both Raspberry Pi and Arduino control…
Wine barrel becomes an arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi
Adelaide-based Matt Shaw wanted an arcade machine of his very own. His solution? Take an old wine barrel and adapt it for the purpose. He used a work-surplus monitor as a display and then cut a form-fitting fibreboard box to…
Monitoring cricket scores with the Raspberry Pi
Rohit Gupta wanted to monitor cricket scores while he was working in his office. The trouble is almost all the sites he would use to do this were blocked by his company’s web traffic filter. So, he turned to the Raspberry Pi…
Basement storage temperature and humidity monitor with a Raspberry Pi
A basement full of old books but no way to monitor humidity and temperature. Enter a Raspberry Pi. This hacker has put together a DHT22 sensor and an LCD screen with the Pi in order to monitor environmental conditions in…
Detecting pollution with a duck and a Raspberry Pi
Teenagers Ben Hope, Harri Bell-Thomas and Benedict Allen from Monmouth teamed up at Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code at the end of July to create Buoy. Buoy is a small, autonomous boat shaped like a duck which records environmental conditions on…
Create a banana beat box with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin was recently in Sydney giving talks and workshops to do with the Pi. As part of this, she set-up a slideshow tutorial at speakerdeck.com that tells you how to use the Pimoroni Explorer HAT…
Hardcore 3D printed retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi
James Drachenberg, founder of Dragon Mountain Design decided he wanted to build his own “Gameboy” retro gaming console. He decided, though, to 3D-print his case and make it a bit different to the norm, as you can see from the picture.…