The guys over at MakerSpaceUK have written an excellent little tutorial that will help you get started with creating your first circuit using a breadboard and some LEDs. There’s even a kit you can buy through Farnell for less than…
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RyanTeck Motor Controller Board gets Scratch support on the #RaspberryPi
Ryan Walmsley’s Motor Controller Board has been given support in ScratchGPIO making it a very simple way for youngsters to get into robotics. Although not available yet, the brilliant Simon Walters was sent a prototype board for the work and…
Keep your kids in bed until the right time with Sleepi – the #RaspberryPi alarm clock
Parent Tycen decided to solve the age-old problem of kids getting up earlier than their parents want them to. Taking inspiration from a kids’ alarm clock, Tycen took a project box, a bit of simple wiring and a Pi and…
Matrix display and Wii nunchuck together make Tetris for the #RaspberryPi
Vince has taken a Pi, some LED matrix displays, a 7-segment display and a Wii nunchuck and put them together to create a Tetris-like game. The game is controlled by the accelerometer in the nunchuck, rather than the joystick, so control…
#RaspberryPi Gingerbread House
Anders Wikström has created a gingerbread house and then added an Adafruit RGB LED pixels strand. The Pi controls them and he’s built an interface using socket.io to control them remotely.
Build Your Own #RaspberryPi Gertboard Experimenter Kit
Joe Alderson at Element 14 has written a tutorial for creating an experimenter board with the Gertboard. He’s included all the resources to get you going (including a laser cutter file, but I daresay one can knock one up with…
Building a retro joystick and retro games platform with the #RaspberryPi
BenCao74 has been working on a GPIO board called the PiJamma. It’s been designed to make it simple to connect retro gaming hardware to the Pi. Take a look at his latest arcade box.
Control someone else’s Christmas lights with the XmasPi! #raspberrypi
And we’re back… After the Cambridge Raspberry Jam I’m just quickly posting this. Look out for a full CamJam post later on this week. Sam has hooked his Pi and an Arduino up to his Christmas lights and train set…
Setting up Epson Scanning on the #RaspberryPi
John Carmack wanted to off-load document scanning from his home PC and chose a Pi to do the job. It’s a little slow and there is a limit to the amount of scanning you can do (because of the Pi’s…
Drive a scrolling LED badge from a #RaspberryPi
Dave Akerman (of high-altitude ballooning/Babbage Bear fame) has taken apart a £13 LED badge, re-soldered some of the connections and written some nifty script in C to create a status display for his ballooning flights. Read more here