Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
Category: Making
“Digital Twin” concept uses a Raspberry Pi to model a mountain bike
International company PTC has unveiled a new concept known as a “Digital Twin”. They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. These sensors feed into a Raspberry Pi which interprets the data and creates a virtual ‘twin’…
Train disruption indicator with lots of blinkies and a Raspberry Pi
James Singleton took a Raspberry Pi and a BlinkyTape and created a train disruption indicator. He used the London Underground API and an interface he wrote to look at Main Line delays to program the BlinkyTape to show different colours and to…
Wi-fi enabled kettle using a Raspberry Pi
FatCookies decided that he wanted to be able to turn his kettle on from his phone. So, he took an old power supply enclosure, ripped out the insides and replaced it with a Raspberry Pi and a relay board, some wiring…
A Raspberry Pi ambient notification cube
Two years ago, Matthew Achariam decided he wanted to create a “tangible” electronics project. He came up with the idea of showing notifications via a cube of LEDs. He hooked the LEDs up to a Raspberry Pi, added a wi-fi dongle…
RyanTeck TrafficHAT for the Raspberry Pi is now available
A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed the RyanTeck TrafficHAT and gave it a solid 9/10. I’m pleased to say that it is now available to purchase. You can get hold of the HAT for under £10 delivered direct from RyanTeck…
PIN entry system using a Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni Explorer HAT
Sandy Macdonald has taken a Pimoroni Explorer HAT and used it to create a PIN entry system. At the moment, the entry system lights up some LEDs and makes a buzzer sound, but obviously it could be extended to unlock…
Squeezebox built from a Raspberry Pi and an ammo box
Richard Deininger has built a Squeezebox using a Pi and an Adafruit PiTFT and encased the whole thing inside a surplus NATO ammunition box. A Squeezebox is a network streaming device that sends MP3s over a LAN. Read about how…
Prototype Swingometer powered by a Raspberry Pi
Pete Taylor, over at Kimondo.com, has written up his project to create an old-fashioned Swingometer. The Swingometer at the moment does not track the General Election results (on account of us not having had the election yet!) but instead “scrapes” a…
Use your Kindle as a screen for the Raspberry Pi
This is not a new idea, but I’ve not seen the process documented as well before. Guillaume Levrier has written up his project that bonds a Kindle Paperwhite to the Raspberry Pi, allowing it to be used as a screen.…