Richard Saville, creator of the ProtoCam prototyping board, has just launched a new Kickstarter. His new board is for the + series of Raspberry Pi, with a 40-pin header, a slot for the camera module, power rails, plenty of space…
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Do-it-yourself Raspberry Pi weather station
Ted Hale has built his own weather station with some strip board and screw terminals so that he can attach whatever peripherals he needs. Read about his project here.
Water cooling the Raspberry Pi
This one is roughly in the category of “Why would you do that?” but Unprecedented has gone ahead and done it anyway. He’s taken a few 3D printed parts and some tubing and created a water cooling system for the Raspberry Pi. You can…
Naughty or Nice Raspberry Pi machine
Brian Corteil is a regular at both CamJam and Potton Pi & Pints. He often brings along his ‘naughty and nice’ machine which magically detects, when you insert your hand, whether you’ve been naughty or nice. Ideal for Christmas time –…
Embedded art installation with Raspberry Pi
Malte Steiner and Wolfgang Spahn are exploring the artistic potential of embedded open source systems. In their new project “Embedded Artist”, they have used Raspberry Pis and Paper Duinos. Here’s what they say about their project: The performance combines four…
Raspberry Pi Garage Door Opener
Chris Driscoll has posted up an “idiot’s guide” to getting a garage door opener working with a Raspberry Pi. It uses a relay board to activate the door, triggered by a web interface. Read more here. See it in action below:
Internet Meme-themed Raspberry Pi Pinball machine
Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the…
Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella
Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used. She’s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. All the…
Control a telescope with Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi
Tom Sherlock from Wolfram Research has written an extensive guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about his work which uses a Pi camera module to take astronomical photographs while the Pi itself controls the position of the telescope…
Digital photo frame with a Raspberry Pi
Greg Betz has been building a digital photo frame powered by a Raspberry Pi which accepts changes remotely. You can read all about his build on his blog.