Instructables user derwassi has written an extensive tutorial on hooking up a Pi to a lamp and having it act as a timer to wake you up gently in the morning. He’s called it the WeggUp (because of the shape). This…
Category: Making
Use an analog thumbstick with your #RaspberryPi
Carl Hughes has taken an analog thumbstick and combined it with an MCP3008 digital-to-analog converter and used PyGame to communicate with it. Nice little project to control your favourite game! Read more here
Interface a #RaspberryPi with a wireless driveway sensor receiver
Ted Hale has taken a cheap wireless movement detector, put the detector at the end of his drive and then hacked the receiver to connect up to a Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little project that required building a small…
#RaspberryPi powered Joke Machine
Tim Massaro has written an Instructable to create a Pi Joke Machine. He’s used a PiFace Control and Display (which is an LCD screen with added buttons) and wrapped it all up in a project box. Read how to do…
Help fund a wearable technology workshop for Girl Guides
This isn’t strictly Pi-related, but it is to do with electronics and education so I thought I’d blog about it anyway! Pi enthusiast (and Babbage the Bear-hugger) and STEM Ambassador Charlotte Godley wants to run an educational workshop for her…
Vocal intruder alarm with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox over at Class Think has posted a tutorial showing you how to use a PIR sensor to detect movement and then play a sound. Take a look here
DIY quiz show with a #RaspberryPi – Triviabox!
Sandy Walsh has taken a Pi, a PiFace board, some extra bits and pieces and some bike handles from China and created a buzz-to-give-your-answer quiz set-up. The Foundation have covered it brilliantly on their blog. Read here
Make a laser engraver out of two DVD drives and a #RaspberryPi
Xiang Zhai has done just that. He ripped the two laser diodes out of a pair of drives and then put them together with some other cheap components, attached a Pi for control and lo and behold he’s ended up…
#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console
This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen. Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery…
#RaspberryPi temperature data recorder with a DS18B20 sensor
Bernhard Suter has written a comprehensive tutorial on getting the DS18B20 temperature sensor working with the Pi. It includes the Python code to interrogate the sensor. Read more here