A group of University of Lancaster researchers have used a Raspberry Pi to only allow a kettle to be boiled when the University’s wind turbine is producing power. Dr. Will Simm, Dr. Peter Newman, Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario and Dr. Stephen…
Category: Making
Reduce the size of your Raspberry Pi B+
Adafruit have published a tutorial over on their Learning area that will help you hack your Raspberry Pi model B+ to get a much thinner profile. It’s not exactly “wafer-thin” as they claim, but it does give you a Pi…
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet
Instructables user diygizmo has posted a great tutorial to help you build the arcade cabinet in the picture above. Check it out here.
Scary Pi-ano with a Raspberry Pi and Makey Makey
Stewart Watkiss (aka Penguin Tutor) has posted details of his 9-year old daughter’s Halloween project. It uses a Makey Makey and conductive Playdough to send commands to a Raspberry Pi which then plays (via Scratch) various sounds and generates lighting…
Get a Christmas tree for your Raspberry Pi and learn Charlieplexing!
Andrew Gale from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire did some great little robot soldering kits for the CamJam in September. He’s now branching out (ha-ha… oh, wait… that joke doesn’t make sense yet) into Christmas trees (see… branching out? branch… Never mind). He’s…
Counting bugs with a Raspberry Pi
Sergey Sharybin and Martijn Berger from Blender presented this awesome bug-o-meter at the recent Blender Conference. It uses a Raspberry Pi and nixie tubes to display the number of bugs being worked on currently. Read more here.
Rawwwwrgghh! Hacking dinosaurs with the Raspberry Pi
Dr Lucy Rogers got together with a group of makers at Blackgang Chine, a Theme Park on the Isle of Wight, to take control of their animatronic dinosaurs. She and some helpers first of all taught the makers and staff how…
Stereo depth perception with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has posted a lovely explanation of a project carried out by Argon Design. They were given a Compute Module and development board and hooked up two camera modules to it. They then wrote an algorithm to…
Hacking a Holga camera with a Raspberry Pi
Pete Taylor has been working on converting a Holga camera into a digital camera using a Raspberry Pi. He previously explained how he’d fitted in a model A to the case and he’s now blogged about his continuing hacks and…
Your document will self destruct with a Raspberry Pi
Supported by the Mexican government, Newcastle, England-based artist Diego Trujillo Pisanty has created a device that prints out documents and then immediately destroys them in a flash of flame and smoke. It was inspired by what happened with Edward Snowden and…