Ivan has blogged about his project to prevent people from watching television at the wrong time. He’s worked out how to do it for both analog and digital TV so that instead of the TV signal, you get a message from…
Category: Making
Make your own sous-vide cooker with the #RaspberryPi and the Wolfram language
The Foundation have just had a guest blog post put up from Allison Taylor of Wolfram Research. In the post, she describes Diego Zviovich’s work to create a DIY sous-vide cooker with a Pi, an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter and a couple…
A #RaspberryPi powered programmable solar cooker
Michael Nicholas over at MakeZine.com has blogged about his project to create a rotation device for his solar cooker, called the Solrmatic. You can read more over at MakeZine. You can get updates on their project by signing up to their…
Morse code translator with the #RaspberryPi
I haven’t got much detail on this project, but thought I’d share it anyway. 13-year old Kyle Seaman has used a Raspberry Pi to take keyboard input and translate what he types into morse code. The morse code is then…
Mirror, Mirror on the #RaspberryPi
Michael Teeuw has created a rather stylish magic mirror effect with a Raspberry Pi. You have to read how he did it to believe it – it’s a fantastic project. He’s done a complete tutorial on how he did it…
Eavesdropping lamp uses a #RaspberryPi to tweet private conversations
I’m mentioning this one only out of interest, rather than any encouragement to recreate it. Kyle McDonald and Brian House have created Conversnitch, a device built for less than $100 that looks like a lamp. It listens to nearby conversations, transcribes the…
#RaspberryPi Smartphone concept – PiPhone
World-class hacker Dave Hunt has made a touch-screen mobile phone concept piece with his Pi. The guts of the thing is a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module which handles the communications to the mobile network and he’s using a PiTFT screen for the…
Using male and female headers with #RaspberryPi expansion boards
The Average Man has done a great round-up of the ways to use headers in various ways with the Pi. He looks at techniques for breaking them apart and at the various breakout and plugin boards you can use. Read it…
Use an analog joystick with the #RaspberryPi and an MCP3008
Matt Hawkins’ site Raspberry Pi Spy has been a constant source of reference for me when creating the Picorder, my box-with-sensors. Many of those sensors provide analog outputs (which I read using an MCP3008) and Matt has now written a…
Creating a sports ticker with a #RaspberryPi
Mike Metral over at medium.com has taken a large LCD display and hooked it up to his Pi. His Pi reads in sports figures, results and statistics and then feeds them to the LCD. Read more here.