Dave Patterson and his primary school class have constructed a beat-the-buzzer game for their local school Christmas fair. It uses an expansion board from ModMyPi to protect the Pi from static electricity and Dave has programmed the whole thing in Python,…
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Bringing a teletype back to life with the Raspberry Pi
Robert Coggeshall (Sudo Bob) has taken a 50-year old teletype unit and resurrected it, thanks to the Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components. You can read about the build and find out more here.
Creating a Raspberry Pi video capture unit
Matt Hawkins has now reached 150 blog posts and to celebrate this, he’s written a three-part guide to creating a video capture unit using a Raspberry Pi, suitable for mounting to your dashboard or bike. You can read the first…
Raspberry Pi controlled wi-fi pottery kiln
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted this on their blog, so I thought I’d share it with you. James Gao and his girlfriend, who is an enthusiastic potter, combined their know-how and skills and created a remote control propane regulator.…
Raspberry Pi controlled Christmas tree light show
Instructables user Osprey22 has written a piece of Python which acts as a sequencer based on an imported MP3 file to drive sets of Christmas tree lights. He’s written the whole thing up as a tutorial, so head on over…
DIY Raspberry Pi GPIO LEDs and switches board
A blogger at PiecesOfPi.co.uk decided that he (or, indeed, she) wanted to build a GPIO board for themselves. So, they’ve taken a piece of stripboard, some LEDs and a few switches and done just that. He’s posted all the diagrams so you…
Google Glass-alike with a Raspberry Pi
Nur has taken a Raspberry Pi, some sunglasses frames, a few LCD components and a mobile hotspot and created a Google Glass clone. There’s not much detail of the project over at Make but it’s interesting to note someone’s done…
Fox hunting with a Raspberry Pi
“KM4EFP” has written up his project in which he has created a portable ‘foxbox’ – a fox hunt transmitter. These transmitters are hidden so that radio enthusiasts can track them down using direction-finding techniques. You can read more about the…
Retro-fit your old Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi
We’ve seen it before: a Gameboy mod with a Pi inside. Well, this Instructable tells you how to do it yourself. Tim G has used a Raspberry Pi Model A and various other, fairly cheap, components in this tutorial which…
Raspberry Pi time lapse photography captures endangered species hatching
Wellington, New Zealand resident Warren was asked to record the hatching of an endangered species: the tuatara. The tuatara is a reptile that is rapidly dying out thanks to some stowaway rats from the 17th Century. So, he used a PiNoIR…