A Finland-based team is currently building an autonomous boat called Leviathan and at the heart of it is a Raspberry Pi. You can read more about the boat here and read about their exploits on their blog.
Category: Making
Create a motion sensor fortune teller with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Julian has blogged this nice little project which has you creating a fortune teller which speaks to ‘guests’ whenever it detects movement. Creepy but fun. Read about it here.
Learn how to solder with Carrie Anne Philbin
Carrie Anne’s been wanting to learn to solder for a while. She’s now learnt how to do it and has made this great video that teaches you which end of the soldering iron is which and how to make good…
Switching control with the Raspberry Pi and a Darlington Array
Here’s a good video of how to use a Darlington Array with the Pi to do switching.
Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s
Brandon Van Ryswyk and Daniel Chin have just finished building a 32-node DataStax Enterprise cluster running on Raspberry Pis. It’s being used to demonstrate the fault-tolerant nature of Cassandra by letting visitors to their lobby take down a ‘data centre’ with…
Solve a Rubik’s Cube with a Raspberry Pi
Zijiang, over at Makeblock, has created a robotic apparatus that will solve a Rubik’s cube. It has four robotic arms which pivot to turn the sides of the cube and the whole thing is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Take…
Raspberry Pi Internet radio player
Spencer Organ has been experimenting with a PiTFT touch screen and programming a user interface with PyGame. He’s now documented the process he went through to create an Internet radio player and shared his code. You can read more about it…
Interview with Dave Hunt – Raspberry Pi mobile phone
We previously covered Dave Hunt’s work on the PiPhone – the first mobile phone powered by a Raspberry Pi. Now, Linux User has tracked him down and Rob Zwetsloot has interviewed him. Read the interview here.
Hacking a 15″ R2-D2 with the Raspberry Pi
Oakland, California-based Andrew Langley has written a tutorial based on his experience hacking the 15″ Hasbro Interactive R2D2. He’s even included a mini-projector in the build to give R2 that realistic feel. Read about it here or watch the video below.
Make a Raspberry Pi powered Big Trak
Leo White has written an article over at Linux User in which he takes a Big Trak, a few other components (like a motor driver board) and converts it to use a Raspberry Pi. Leo’s an expert on hacking Big Traks (I’ve…