Giles Booth has followed on from Matt Hawkins’ work on using a Wiimote and hooked the Bluetooth remote control device up to the Pi and made it control Turtle graphics. You can change pen colour, lift and place the pen…
Like many people, I have a Chromebook. I use this machine whenever I can’t be bothered to unload my laptop, and for when I’m down in The Den (my large maker shed at the bottom of the garden, like fairies,…
Stefan Vorkoetter, a hobbyist who messes about with all kinds of electronics and geeky stuff, from remote controlled airplanes to vintage sliderules, wanted a tablet that wasn’t constrained software-wise like many Android tablets seem to be. He was introduced to…
Roland Pelayo has written up his project in which he creates a hexapod walking robot with a Raspberry Pi for control. He’s used a piece of acrylic as the main chassis and then fashioned legs out of strips of aluminium.…
My good friend Tim Richardson has been experimenting with the Philips Hue range of connected lights. He’s got a set out in his shed Cabin and he wanted them to be controlled remotely from another Raspberry Pi (primarily so that people in the…
France-based Hexalyse has hooked up an AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor to his Raspberry Pi. This sensor is able to detect the approach of a storm by detecting lightning up to 40km away and it comes on a little breakout board that can interact…
Belgian maker Frederick Vandenbosch wanted a wearable to take to this year’s Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend (Pi Party). So, he put together a Raspberry Pi Zero, a Pi Supply PaPiRus e-paper HAT, a Pimoroni Zero LiPo and a 3D-printed back plate and created…
Matthias Ladkau has created a portable retro gaming machine using a Raspberry Pi 3 and a custom-designed 3D-printed case. He’s called it the Spieljunge. It runs RetroPie to emulate loads of gaming machines and features a variety of small 3D-printed…
Andrew Oakley from Cotswold Raspberry Jam wanted to try out the x86 version of Raspbian. However, he wanted to run it inside VirtualBox on his Windows 10 PC to save having to have another machine with just Raspbian running on it.…
Christopher Aedo has written an article over on opensource.com in which he explains how he has set-up a Raspberry Pi to monitor his home-brewing equipment. It’s a pretty sophisticated set-up that uses CraftBeerPi to provide an interface to several sensor readings. You can…
