Cat Lamin has continued her work with the EduKit and has written up a second blog post about her experience. Read it here.
Category: Making
Upgrading a Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi
John Reder has taken the shell of an old Commodore 64 and placed a Raspberry Pi inside. Using PiMAME he has emulated the C64 and now has a working system! Read more here or view the video below.
Design a printed circuit board using DesignSpark PCB
The Average Man has done a great guide on using DesignSpark PCB to design a printed circuit board. It’s a full tutorial with screenshots and shows you how to design a simple board with one LED on it. It may be…
Review of the Raspberry Pi CamJam EduKit in action
Cat Lamin has done a well-balanced review of the EduKit over on her blog. It’s great to get this kind of feedback and several of the things she says will help us to make the worksheets better. Read the blogpost here.
Raspberry Pi NFC-based achievement tracker for Jams
Well-known blogger, Pi enthusiast and all-round nice person Charlotte Godley has just started blogging over at Element 14 about a new project she wants to start. Called Pi Passport it uses an NFC-chipped card to allow people to check in…
Motorised Raspberry Pi webcam with Ben Heck
Ben Heck, celebrity hacker, has taken a Pi, an Arduino and a servo and created a webcam which can be moved according to commands sent to it via a chat app. Watch his video below: Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Shop…
Raspberry Pi powered Hexapod – the HexPi
Someone over at Mikronauts has taken a Pi, a hexapod chassis and 18 servos and put together a Pi-controlled hexapod robot. It’s a great project, that probably cost quite a bit, but it looks fantastic.
Asteroids shooting game on a Raspberry Pi gun!
A couple of hackers have taken a toy gun, fitted a Raspberry Pi inside, and then used a see-through screen (like you get on teleprompters) to create a shoot-the-asteroids game. Very cool project. You can read more on Avishay Orpaz’s…
Car diagnostics on the Raspberry Pi and PiTFT
Paul Bartek has done an extensive tutorial on using the PiTFT to display data from a car’s OBD-11 port and also a video which you can see below.
Wooden handheld Raspberry Pi
Instructables user fernseher1 has written a full tutorial on creating a handheld Raspberry Pi using a wooden case and an analogue screen. Read it here.