11-year old Elijah wanted to create a retro gaming machine that was tough enough to survive trips and being shoved into a bag, and cheap enough that he could give them away as gifts. To do this, he turned to…
Category: Tutorials
Automatically backup your Minecraft worlds on the Raspberry Pi
Albert had a problem. He quite often corrupted or messed up his Pi’s SD card. Unfortunately, also on the SD card was lots of Minecraft work carried out by his kids. This meant that lots of work was being lost.…
Controlling the Raspberry Pi using Bluetooth on the micro:bit
Barry Byford is a bit of a Bluetooth nut and he has turned his attention to the micro:bit and its Bluetooth interface. In this example (in the video above) he shows us how a micro:bit button press can be detected…
Use Initial State to create a system health dashboard for your Raspberry Pi
Initial State is one of the ever-growing list of sites that take data from your internet of things device and allow you to create dashboards displaying that data. It is one of the better ones, and they’ve certainly ploughed a…
Build a spectrum analyzer with two Pimoroni pHATs and a Raspberry Pi Zero
Sandy Macdonald, one of the Pimoroni crew, has written an excellent tutorial in which he takes a pHAT DAC audio board, a Scroll pHAT and a Raspberry Pi Zero, solders them together and creates a visual spectrum analyzer. Python is used…
Build a wearable time-lapse camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Adafruit has published a tutorial on creating a time-lapse camera using a Pi Zero, a camera module, a bit of power circuitry, a micro button and a 3D-printed case. Lovely project if you’ve got the 3D printing capability. Take a…
Build a portable Raspberry Pi Zero-based workstation
Ben Heck has done a great video tutorial/walk-through of his latest build. This time, he takes a Raspberry Pi Zero and laser-cuts a case for it to create a really small mini-laptop. Watch the video above 🙂
Mini persistence of vision rig using a Raspberry Pi Zero
Francesco Vannini has written a great tutorial which shows you how to create a persistence-of-vision device using a few components like an old CD, a PC fan, a battery and a hand-crafted LED bar. You can get some great results from…
New Foundation resource helps you render selfies in Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi
There are some great resources over at the Foundation and a new one has just been added. This one uses the Pi camera to take a ‘selfie’ and then converts the RGB data into Minecraft blocks. If any of them…
Share your computing power with BOINC on the Raspberry Pi
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC) is a way for you to get involved on global research projects. You install a client and then the slack time of your particular machine is used in the networked task of…