EvilBoris has posted a video online showing the Raspberry Pi working as an ambilight server to give environmental lighting effects behind a television. You can see the video below: You can get the kit he used from Lightberry – he…
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Hear all about the Raspberry Pi in Education with Ben Nuttall
Ben Nuttall, member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education team, is currently on tour in the United States spreading the good news about the Pi and generally making a nuisance of himself (he says, ducking things being thrown at him from…
Control motors with your Raspberry Pi and this video tutorial
Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has done a new video! Always slickly produced and accessible, this one is an update to a previous video he did in which he controls a DC motor. He uses a RyanTeck Motor…
Motorised Raspberry Pi webcam with Ben Heck
Ben Heck, celebrity hacker, has taken a Pi, an Arduino and a servo and created a webcam which can be moved according to commands sent to it via a chat app. Watch his video below: Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Shop…
Live streaming the Raspberry Pi camera to a Windows PC
Brynlea Gibson has done a comprehensive video tutorial on getting video streaming working with a piece of software called gstreamer. It’s been a while since I’ve showcased a tutorial on this subject and some of them have become out-of-date, so…
Focusing the Raspberry Pi camera without breaking it
Thanks to RasPi.Today for spotting this one Although the Raspberry Pi Foundation has covered this topic here, George Wang has created a video with what is arguably a better way of doing the same job of focusing the lens on…
Raspberry Pi powered Hexapod – the HexPi
Someone over at Mikronauts has taken a Pi, a hexapod chassis and 18 servos and put together a Pi-controlled hexapod robot. It’s a great project, that probably cost quite a bit, but it looks fantastic.
Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton about the Raspberry Pi Model B+
On Thursday I attended an Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which he talks about the Pi, the Compute Module and also introduces the model B+. He also fields questions from the audience. Element…
Asteroids shooting game on a Raspberry Pi gun!
A couple of hackers have taken a toy gun, fitted a Raspberry Pi inside, and then used a see-through screen (like you get on teleprompters) to create a shoot-the-asteroids game. Very cool project. You can read more on Avishay Orpaz’s…
Controlling a model train with JS on the Raspberry Pi
Jonathan Porta has written a client/server application using Node.js and Angular.js on the Pi to control a model train set. He strapped a GoPro to the roof of the train and has got some great footage (below). You can view the…