Linux guru Les Pounder has created this fantastic version of Snakes and Ladders called Pythons and Resistors, hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. You press a button to perform a dice roll and magnets and reed switches embedded in the…
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Build a Goblin Detector with the Raspberry Pi
Andrew Oakley’s daughter’s bedroom is plagued by goblins. So, they decided to use a Raspberry Pi to scare the little so-and-sos off! They’ve used a PIR sensor for detection and the Pibrella for a buzzer and general connectivity. Lovely little…
Sheffield telescope uses the Raspberry Pi camera module
A company, Alternative-Photonics, supported by researchers at the University of Sheffield’s Institute of Physics, has built a telescope, primarily out of 3D-printed parts, and used the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures through the lens. There’s been a bit of over-enthusiastic news…
Video tutorial: read analog inputs with the Raspberry Pi
Video blogger Fraser May has done a great, very in-depth video, on analog inputs and reading them with the Pi using an ADC chip. Well worth a watch, though at over 45 minutes it’s possibly too long for many people.
Raspberry Pi facial recognition treasure safe
Tony DiCola from Adafruit and David Scheltma from Make have written a comprehensive tutorial on creating a safe which will open when it recognises your face. You can read all about it over on the Make site.
Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board
Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi’s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module. There are loads of different…
Raspberry Pi level crossing for model trains
Just a quickie this one. Dave Featherston has taken a Pi, a couple of stepper motors (with driver boards), some wood, some toothpicks and some straws, soldered up a couple of bits of perfboard, added a buzzer and created this rather…
Professor uses Raspberry Pi as part of an earthquake early-warning system
Berkeley professor Joshua Bloom is part of the beta-testing team for ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system. He has used a Raspberry Pi to tap into the data source of the system to provide him with a 5-second warning should…
Apartment door buzzer control with a Raspberry Pi
Jonathan from RoboPenguins.com wanted a way to get into his apartment without needing to remember his key (which he tends to forget). So, he built a circuit to switch the buzzer/access button in his apartment from a Raspberry Pi. He…
Speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi
Pete has done this great tutorial and list of instructions/code to create an speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi downloads headlines from the internet and then plays them back with whatever is connected to the 3.5mm audio…