In an effort to get everyone excited about physical computing using the GPIO pins on the Pi, the Foundation has just published a new video from Saladhouse in which the GPIO is explained and various projects featured. You can see the…
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Light a Single Neopixel from the Raspberry Pi’s UART pin
It must be Neopixel day or something. In this tutorial, Josh teaches us how to light up a single Neopixel using the Raspberry Pi’s UART TX pin and a piece of software called “neouart”. Read the tutorial here if you’d…
Running Neopixels from the Raspberry Pi without an Arduino
Here’s what could be a game-changer in the land of blinkies. Tony from North-West USA has taken the work of an Adafruit forum user, adapted it slightly and is now driving Neopixels natively from the Pi. It uses the Raspberry Pi’s…
Tiny wall-mounted Raspberry Pi home server
Colin Riley (aka Domipheus) has taken a Pi and a PiTFT screen and created a wall-mounted home server with touchscreen. He’s done a lot of cutting and modification of the Pi and the screen and it’s really impressive how small…
A Raspberry Pi inside an old NES
Here’s a nice project. I don’t have his/her name, but it’s a good hack of an old NES games console to put a Pi inside with RetroPie running on it. Take a look at the full details of the build…
Temperature display with a Raspberry Pi and Nokia LCD
Bart Bania has taken a Pi, a Nokia 5110 LCD screen and a one-wire temperature sensor, mashed them together and created a nice little temperature sensor. You can see circuit diagrams and get access to the code by visiting his…
Underwater ROV with a Raspberry Pi onboard
This is one of my personal ‘Holy Grails’ – an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle containing a Pi. Although it’s not controlled by the Pi, I think this one counts! Tim Jagenberg and his son are currently attending the Maker Faire in Trondheim…
Monitor your kegs with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a cool project for those of you who like a drink or two. It assumes that you’ve got some kegs (or barrels) of beer (or other drink). The software (known as Kegberry) can either just list your kegs or,…
Fisher Price talking chatter smartphone with built-in Raspberry Pi
Grant Gibson has taken a child’s toy and turned it into a talking internet-enabled device. The main body is made out of a Fisher Price Chatterphone, made popular by Toy Story 3, and inside is the Pi and some basic electronics…
Play PacMan on a Raspberry Pi while waiting for the bus
Norwegian makers Norwegian Creations, HK-reklame and Trondheim Makers wanted to advertise the Trondheim Maker Faire. They hit upon the idea of installing a Raspberry Pi and a screen inside bus stops so that people could play PacMan while they waited.…