Kevin Uhlir has taken a Raspberry Pi and a large HDMI screen and then programmed the Pi to use the Weather Underground API to create a clock and weather monitor. The software will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux as long…
Category: Making
Mini Raspberry Pi handheld computer
The Ruiz Brothers have published a new tutorial on the Adafruit website. This tutorial shows you how to create a handheld Raspberry Pi computer using a 3.5″ PiTFT screen, a mini wireless keyboard and a LIPO battery. It’s rather nifty and…
Marvel teams up with Raspberry Pi Foundation to launch competition for US girls
Read the headline. Now re-read it. Yes, that’s right, Marvel! The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Marvel, in association with the Ant-Man movie, have launched a competition in the US, the prizes for which include tickets for the Ant-Man premiere in…
Sci-Fi your desk with the Raspberry Pi
Frederick Vandenbosch is currently building a desk into which he will embed a Raspberry Pi. He’s basing his design on the console from Tron Legacy (see below). While I don’t expect it will be all-singing, all-dancing, he’s doing it in the…
Control LEDs with the Explorer HAT and an 8-bit shift register on the Raspberry Pi
Sandy Macdonald has written an excellent explanation and tutorial for using a shift register with the Pimoroni Explorer HAT on top of the Raspberry Pi. It allows you to control 8 LEDs using just 3 output pins on the HAT,…
Super-sized Gameboy runs from a Raspberry Pi
Brussels-based Ilhan Ünal (Raz) was inspired to create a giant replica of Nintendo’s GameBoy. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and an old desktop monitor to do it and installed Retropie to drive the games. The case is made out of MDF…
Art installation triptych with three Raspberry Pis
Film-maker Natasha Maidoff approached her friend Thomas to her create a video triptych at the 2015 Venice Art Walk. The triptych is made out of three Raspberry Pis playing three separate, but synchronised, videos. This is accomplished by networking the three Pis together…
Theatre intermission sound controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Scott Wegner operates the sound and lights system for his local auditorium in rural Minnesota. This often involves playing music into the foyer area to warm the audience up before the enter, as well as making announcements about when the show…
Vintage radio brought to life with a Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon is usually to be seen hacking around with Minecraft Pi. This time, however, he’s taken one of his wife’s collection of broken useless rubbish vintage radios, a Raspberry Pi, an IQaudIO audio board and amplifier and some other small parts and given it…
Touch free water dispenser with a Raspberry Pi
Ismail Uddin over at Science Exposure has created a device that detects movement and then dispenses water. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi, a RaspiRobot board, a peristaltic pump and an SR-04 ultrasonic rangefinder module and put them together. His code and write-up is…