PighiXXX, who created the brilliant ABC (Arduino Basic Connections) cards have now created a comprehensive guide to the GPIO (and other pins) of the Pi. Take a proper look here
Category: Making
Build a #RaspberryPi battery backup
I recently received a sample of the UPiS uninterruptible power supply. I’m going to review that in a few days time. However, if you’d like to do something similar yourself, George over at Repairhub has written a tutorial to help…
Wearable computer with motorized, retracting eye display powered by #RaspberryPi
The Code Ninja has heavily modified a Raspberry Pi (and I do mean heavily) and attached a tiny LCD display to an arm that hovers in front of your eye. A servo system is able to push the display away from…
Festive fun with the PiRingo LED board for the #RaspberryPi
Just in time for Christmas, ebay and Amazon seller 4tronix have developed a cute little GPIO add-on board for the Pi. It has a ring of LEDs and two switches meaning you can use it in a PiGlow-type way but…
Stereoscopic viewer using a #RaspberryPi and a retro device
Vancouver-based Alec Smecher has taken a vintage View-Master toy and crammed in a Raspberry Pi, the innards of a CD-ROM drive and 2 OLED displays to create a portable stereoscopic video player. It’s a truly astounding mod and it’s well…
#RaspberryPi – enabled piano stairs are a hit at HackPrinceton 2013
Bonnie Eisenman and her team used light sensors and torches to create a set of musical stairs at Princeton. The sensors are read using an Arduino and the Pi is used to produce the sounds. Read more and see more…
#RaspberryPi tutorial video – analog inputs
Fraser May has created his third tutorial video. This time he uses the MCP3004 analog-to-digital converter to show how you can add analog inputs to your Pi.
A self-balancing #RaspberryPi image processing robot
Over on LetsMakeRobots, Samy74 has created a robot which balances on two wheels and uses ultrasonic distance sensors to prevent collisions. Samy has recently added the Pi camera module. Read more here
Guest Post: The Building of AstroBlaster
Due to the unfortunate closure of the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam; the forum including details of this project had to be removed which meant the build history would have been lost forever. However luckily for me, Mike being a lover…
Using the #RaspberryPi to Read Floppy Disks
Alan Page has worked out how to read a floppy disk from his Pi. Too complicated to explain here, so I’ll let you read his blog post.