Four students from Imperial College London have ported the game 2048 across to the Pi using Assembly language. Franklin Schrans, Jacek Burys, Saurav Mitra, Srikrishna Subrahmanyam teamed up for their first year final ARM project, coded the game and then added a…
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PatternCraft – build with punchcards in Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
Gemma May Latham has been looking into ways that Minecraft can be used to explore artistic uses of textiles. With help from David Whale (co-author of the excellent book Adventures in Minecraft) she built a punchcard reader that is powered by an…
Raspberry Pi controlled fireworks
Sacramento-based Chris Osborn likes to control fireworks with electronics. This year, he decided to use the Raspberry Pi to trigger relays that would ignite the fireworks. In the end it didn’t work brilliantly well, but he’s blogged about it and…
Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code
California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka ScarabCoder) has created a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). He’s taken some LEDs and buttons to create a ‘keypad’ of sorts and then written some…
Remote twerking robot using a Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred, who created the mighty Pi Glove has used an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board to pick up the infrared signals for his (pretty darned cool) robot and then used the Pi to re-transmit the signals according to his program or web…
Raspberry Pi internet monitor boasts a biiiiiiig light tower
Instructables user talk2bruce has created a truly great tutorial. In it, he shows you how to build a highly visible internet monitor. The Raspberry Pi is used to ping a site on the internet and then, based on the response, switches the…
Raspberry Pi controlled BBQ for briskets!
Wired magazine have published an article about a group of Harvard engineering students who have built themselves a brisket smoker. The students embarked on the project as part of one of their engineering modules at the University and have come…
Control a Raspberry Pi-powered RGB LED from your Android phone
PubNub are fast becoming a company to keep an eye on in the Pi world. They’ve produced a few articles so far that use their online service and it’s time for another one. Kevin Gleason has written a tutorial for wiring up an…
Create a 3x3x3 LED cube with the Raspberry Pi
Jacob from Coventry Makerspace has taken 27 LEDs and soldered them together as a cube. He’s then hooked up each of the 9 columns of LEDs to GPIO pins and also to ground, via transistors. The transistors are also hooked up to…
Raspberry Pi dog monitor – with lasers!
Dave Young wanted to stop his dog from jumping up and taking food off the kitchen work surfaces (I can sympathise!) when he wasn’t in the room. So, he hooked up a laser detector circuit to a Raspberry Pi and programmed…