The Raspberry Pi Foundation have covered Aleator777’s work to create a lunar phase clock. This is a lovely piece of work that uses John Conway’s lunar phase algorithm. All the computation and control of lights is done using the Pi. You…
Category: Making
#RaspberryPi powered arcade coin dozer game
SoggyBunz has lashed together an arcade-style coin dozer game using a Raspberry Pi and the shell of a Macintosh Plus. He uses a servo to activate an acrylic plate that moves back and forth, pushing coins over the edge. Read…
Stripped down #RaspberryPi brings new life to Gameboy
Travis Brown has taken an old Gameboy and squeezed inside a stripped-down Raspberry Pi, a composite screen, a battery and several smaller components and created a beautiful retro gaming device. His full account of the build including loads of photographs…
A completely new musical instrument powered by a #RaspberryPi
I’ve just seen this over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog and I just had to share it with you just in case you’re not following them (which you should!) David Sharples from the University of Pennsylvania needed a subject for…
Behavioural science monitoring on a #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has posted about Katherine Scott‘s work to create a humane rat behavioural monitoring station using a Raspberry Pi. Cute little critters, really. Read more here.
A tweet-controlled RGB LCD display on the #RaspberryPi
Jeremy Blythe has done a comprehensive tutorial over on tuts+ in which he controls an Adafruit RGB LCD screen from the Pi and displays different tweets in different colours depending on content. Read it here
Use a Nokia 5110/3310 display with the #RaspberryPi
Adafruit has published a tutorial on using their library for this small Nokia screen with the Pi. Read it here
#RaspberryPi projects galore at the Bay Area Maker Faire
Alex Bradbury has just posted an account of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s time at the recent Maker Faire in San Francisco. There are loads of great Pi-related projects to read about, which you can do by going to their blog.
Interactive sculptures powered by #RaspberryPi
Scott Garner has created two sculptures that react to their environment and then produce sounds based on the input. In his own words: For several years I’ve imagined a sculpture with a massive array of different sensors that processes the…
A #RaspberryPi mini boombox
ThisOldGeek has taken a large Peets Coffee tin and filled it with electronics to create a boom box audio system. He’s used a Vacuum Fluorescent Display inside it to display what is currently being played and a USB sound card and amplifier…