Spencer Organ, who teaches at KESH Academy in Birmingham, had a problem: How to give a Tin Man a heart. For his school’s performances of The Wizard of Oz, he decided that a Raspberry Pi was the way to go.…
Category: Wearable
Raspberry Pis used to track bees at Kew Gardens
This one is guaranteed to get my buzzing phobia going! A Newcastle-based engineer has developed a system to track the flight paths and behaviour of bees at London’s Kew Gardens. A pack consisting of a tiny RFID tag and an…
Live streaming Raspberry Pi dog camera
Ewa Karweta has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a bunch of components to provide power and put them into a dog back pack. He’s then kindly asked his pooch to wear it so that he can get a…
Spooky, interactive Raspberry Pi radio play at Bodiam Castle
The National Trust’s Bodiam Castle and creative agency Splash and Ripple have collaborated on a new interactive experience. The experience, which takes the form of an interactive murder mystery, uses devices called ‘Echo Horns’ carried by the visitors to tell…
Parkinson’s Disease experience uses Raspberry Pi
Liam Jarvis, of the University of London at Royal Holloway, and his team from the Analogue Theatre Company have created an experiential art installation called Transports. Here’s what New Scientist has to say about this incredible project: It aims to simulate…
Google Glass-alike with a Raspberry Pi
Nur has taken a Raspberry Pi, some sunglasses frames, a few LCD components and a mobile hotspot and created a Google Glass clone. There’s not much detail of the project over at Make but it’s interesting to note someone’s done…
Surveillance jacket controlled by Raspberry Pi
South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yung Hun, together with costume designer Jehee Sheen, have created a jacket embedded with dozens of cameras which can be used to capture a 360-degree picture of the wearer’s environment. At the…
Wearable wrist radio with the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice project. A wearable Raspberry Pi powered by a LIPO running pifm and a Python script to play music. Not much detail on the page itself about the build, but he does list the components so you should…
Head mounted Raspberry Pi emulates Google Glass for $80
Arvind Sanjeev has taken a Raspberry Pi, a small LCD screen and a lens and created a wearable, hat-mounted device that accepts voice commands. You can see a video of it in action below and read more, including a tutorial…
The Nintendo Keytar – a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser
Theremin Hero took the following components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN/OUT connections MidiNES / Chip Maestro and made a brand new musical instrument out of it.…