Sébastien Rinsoz has written a tutorial in which he uses a Yocto-Thermocouple to measure and record the temperature of meat in an oven. It’s connected to the Raspberry Pi which triggers the taking of readings and recording them and sending emails etc.…
Category: Making
Using the Pi-LITEr board with the #RaspberryPi
The ‘Average Man’ has got hold of a Pi-LITEr board from Ciseco. These tiny boards feature a row of bright surface-mounted LEDs and plug directly into the GPIO. It’s really good for teaching yourself about GPIO and you could make,…
Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi
Jordan Balagot has created a robot that shoots mini Nerf darts. She’s used a “Romo” robot for transport and the Raspberry Pi for control of the servo that fires the gun. Take a look at the video below or view…
Learn to play the piano with a #RaspberryPi
Shane Snipe, and his dad, have built a system to teach you how to play the piano and they’ve used a Raspberry Pi to do it. They’ve rigged up a series of servos which control some laser pointers which then…
Monitor your plants with PlantPi – #RaspberryPi and #Arduino working together
A group of year 11 students from Frome College have entered (and won one of the prizes) the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi inventions contest. Jake Malley, Gabriel Barnes and Alex Osbourne have linked together a Raspberry Pi and an ATMega328P-PU…
Recycled monitors and #RaspberryPi make up a video wall
Students at the Canberra Institute of Technology have taken a bunch of old DVI monitors and, together with a Pi for each monitor, have created a video wall. This is a great way of recycling old monitors! It doesn’t look…
#RaspberryPi powered dartboard
Hopefully the headline alone should have got you intrigued. Daniel Fett from Germany has developed a digital dartboard (PiDart) where the dart hits are registered by an Arduino Mega and then sent to the Pi which records the hits and…
Automated home brewing with the #RaspberryPi
Ted Hale has previously experimented with temperature thermistor sensing and controlled a refrigerator using a Pi. He’s now moved on to using the Pi to control the heating processes involved with brewing beer. Read all about it here
#RaspberryPi Face recognition treasure box
Tony DiCola has written a tutorial for the Adafruit Learning System in which he uses a Pi and a camera module, together with a nice wooden box and servo, to create a box which only opens if it recognises the…
Ultrasonic train detector in Stockholm uses a #RaspberryPi
Here’s a neat real-life project. Apologies for the use of the word ‘neat’. Viktor Rene works for Stopp Family. They are a production company that wanted to trigger the playing of a video on a billboard when an underground train…