A team of computer science students from BITS Pilani‘s Goa campus, led by Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastava, wanted to help visually impaired people in India by teaching them Braille. However, most Braille teaching machines cost in excess of £4000. So,…
Category: Making
Using Plotly to create a graph of dissolved oxygen with the #RaspberryPi
Here’s an interesting one for those of you (like me) who like sensors. Someone’s taken an Atlas Scientific dissolved oxygen sensor and breakout board and connected it up to a Raspberry Pi. The Pi then runs a piece of Python…
Dad gets daughters into robotics early by using a #RaspberryPi
Joel Miller wanted to encourage and involve his daughters in robotics… and the oldest is only 3! With a bit of 3D printing (although most of it could have been done by buying the bits) he’s created a custom robot…
New tutorial from Adafruit uses #RaspberryPi to create Google Glass clone
The good folks over at Adafruit have just published a lengthy tutorial on creating a Google Glass-alike clip on display using a Raspberry Pi. There’s loads of information over on Adafruit and, although it’s not a cheap project, it’s well…
Nice portable handheld retro emulator with a #RaspberryPi
3Derp has used his 3D printer to create a case for his Raspberry Pi and then added a battery pack, TFT monitor and a Teensy 2.0 to create a beautiful handheld which runs the RetroPie distro. Read more/see more pics…
Talking C-3PO with a #RaspberryPi
Canada-based Luc Gallant had a problem. It’s a problem that many of us have faced: He has a bust of C-3PO and he wanted to make it talk. So, he took a Raspberry Pi and a few other components and…
Detect WiFi access points using a #RaspberryPi
So you want to do a bit of NSA-style snooping, do you? Well, now the $6000 price tag has been dropped to around £100 by taking a Pi, a wifi adapter and a GPS unit. Some guys over at Hyperion…
Build a pan/tilt mechanism for your #RaspberryPi camera out of wood
Over on ScrapToPower.co.uk, they’ve done a lengthy tutorial for those of you who like working with wood and don’t mind a bit of DIY. It’s a pan/tilt mechanism that uses stepper motors and ULN2003 driver boards to make the parts…
#RaspberryPi used for monitoring penguins in Antartica
Way back in September last year, I covered a story on Cambridge Consultants, the Zoological Society of London, and their use of the Raspberry Pi in conservation and preservation in Kenya. Since January this year, they have used the same…
#RaspberryPi electric spinning wheel
Arkansas-based Cyndi Minister has created a spinner, controlled by a Raspberry Pi, for making yarn up into spools. I’ll let her explain it – read her blog!