Corq has blogged about his work on a project to read transponder information from over-flying aircraft using a Raspberry Pi and a TV receiver dongle. Read more here
Category: Making
#RaspberryPi with 3.2″ touch screen
Mark Williams has worked long and hard to get a small SainSmart touch screen device working with his Raspberry Pi. It may be low resolution, and tiny, but this has an awful lot of applications (I’d love to integrate it…
#RaspberryPi and Rainbowduino make for psychedelic helmet
Ryan Longo and Michael Vogt have teamed up to create a Daft Punk-inspired helmet powered by a Raspberry Pi and using several I2C-capable Rainbowduinos. Read more about the project here and watch the demonstration video.
Overkill, yet cool, with a water-cooled @Raspberry_Pi
Bit-tech modder James Couzens has taken the Pi’s non-existent heat problem to heart with his water-cooling project. You can read more about the project at Bit Tech and full details are available on their forums.
Voice Controlling a #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has blogged about, and released the code for, his speech control software. It uses the Google voice API and you basically say “Pi”, wait for a confirmation and then tell it what to do. There’s a video and…
Freetronics teases USB LiPo charger
Here’s an interesting bit of advance news. Freetronics has just announced a new product, available soon, that will enable you to charge a 3.7.v lipo cell from a USB port via a micro USB port. Interesting… perhaps this could be…
Vintage Radio to internet jukebox with a #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Dominic Buchstaller has been busy. He’s taken an old German vintage wireless radio from the 1950s, stripped it out, refurbished it and installed a Raspberry Pi inside it. You can see the whole project including enough instructions to do it…
USB battery pack experiments with the #RaspberryPi
With my Raspberry Pi camera project, it’s vital that the Pi is portable and untethered to mains electricity. So, I researched various ways of powering the Pi from battery. This ranged from using LiPo batteries, through AA batteries and finally…
Using a vintage voltmeter with the #RaspberryPi
Tom Lee at the Sunlight Foundation has been tinkering with an old voltmeter and getting it to work with the Raspberry Pi, using the PWM pin as the driver. Read more at their blog
Reactive ambient lighting for your television with a #RaspberryPi
Oscar Andersson has created a Raspberry Pi version of Philips’ Ambilight that uses ambient lighting to enhance your television experience. Best explained with the video posted on the Foundation’s site (see below). More information can be found at the Raspberry Pi…