Adafruit have just made available to buy a new HAT add-on board. It has pads for up to 12 touch devices (you can use fruit!) and plugs nicely into the GPIO, just as any HAT should. You can read more and…
Category: Making
Raspberry Pi aeroponics system
Instructables user darkstar1 has documented his project which uses a fogger/mister machine and a PowerSwitch Tail II to create a Pi-controlled aeroponics system to grow plants from cuttings. You can read how he did it here.
Home arcade experience with the Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell wanted an authentic arcade experience at home. So, he built a replica of the Street Fighter 2 control console and a metal dance mat and has now hooked up a Raspberry Pi using emulation software. The console and…
Live streaming Raspberry Pi dog camera
Ewa Karweta has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a bunch of components to provide power and put them into a dog back pack. He’s then kindly asked his pooch to wear it so that he can get a…
Make your own Nokia 5110 Raspberry Pi add-on board
Richard Saville (Average Man) has used one of his ProtoPal prototyping boards to create a board that houses a Nokia 5110 LCD display. He’s written a tutorial about assembling the board and installing the necessary software to use it. Great idea…
1981 portable VCR Raspberry Pi media centre
MisterM has taken a 1981 Sharp VC-2300H portable VCR unit, refurbished it, stripped it out and fitted a Raspberry Pi inside to use it as a media centre. He’s retro-fitted an old VHS cassette tape with a USB hub which…
Raspberry Pi Lunchbox Arcade machine
This is quite an old blog entry, but not one I think I’ve covered before. Stiggy has taken a plastic lunchbox, some arcade controls and created an arcade machine! The arcade controls are linked to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO and he’s…
Raspberry Pi arcade game emulator in an Atari Lynx
David Hooker has taken an old Atari Lynx handheld computer, ripped the guts out of it and fitted a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other electronic components (an amplifier for instance). He’s installed Shea Silverman’s PiPlay and used one of…
New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+
Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+/B+. It’s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power…
A Raspberry Pi MP3 player inside a rotary phone
“makerblog” has written an Instructable that takes you through the process of embedding a Raspberry Pi into an old rotary phone. Beginning by stripping the innards out of the phone before mounting the Pi inside, he has supplied all the…