Romilly Cocking and his wife own an allotment about half a kilometre from where they live. Romilly wanted to set up a wireless monitor between the greenhouse on the allotment and their home. To do this, he’s experimenting with a…
Category: Making
Custom-built word processing box powered by Raspberry Pi
Portland-based Giando Sigurani has created a portable word processing system from a Raspberry Pi 2 and a few other bits including a full-size keyboard and track pad, SD card reader and exposed USB port. The whole thing has been built…
Raspberry Pi “action camera” inside a 3D case
Connor Yamada has done a nice write-up of his project to create an ‘action camera’ with his Raspberry Pi and Camera Module. The results are mixed, to say the least, but it does show what is possible with a bit…
Driving NeoPixels from Docker on the Raspberry Pi
The guys over at Hypriot have been using Docker a lot. In this instance, they use Node.JS to drive a set of NeoPixels from the Pi. In the example, they use the Pi’s 5V power supply to provide the power…
LEGO / Raspberry Pi rover
Xian has done a great job on this LEGO rover. It utilises Lego Power Functions and the Raspberry Pi and can be controlled via a web browser. He explains his build, with block diagrams and details on wiring and explains his use…
Build your own digital clock with a Raspberry Pi with this Kickstarter
David Saul is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Compatible with the B+, A+ and Pi 2, the PiMuxClock plugs into the 40-way GPIO header and stands up, giving you a large…
Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi
Dr Scott Baker has been messing around with VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) which emit light directly rather than being backlit like normal LCD displays. He has worked out how to interface such a display with the Raspberry Pi and has…
Weatherproof timelapse with a Raspberry Pi
Madis Vorklaev has taken a Raspberry Pi and a DSLR camera and fused them together to create a timelapse camera. The set-up has a 3G USB modem installed that allows him to remotely access the images. Read more here.
Guitar powered by a Raspberry Pi and Arduino plays network logs
Ben Reardon saw a robot playing a classical guitar in 1988 at a World Expo in Brisbane, Australia. It stuck in his mind and he has now done his own version using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and some servos…
Raspberry Pi powered ultrasonic sensing Minion Fart Gun triggering machine
Paul Weeks has taken his Pi, hooked it up to an ultrasonic sensor and then created a LEGO contraption that fires a Minion Fart Gun when the Pi detects someone is near. It sounds utterly mad and stupid and… well,…