Joonas Pihlajamaa has taken a Raspberry Pi and plugged in his Kawai CS-11 keyboard. By installing some software and then programming the Pi in Python, he has created a MIDI logger. He plays notes on the keyboard, the keystrokes are converted to…
Bill Ballard has taken a Raspberry Pi, a Pimoroni Scroll pHAT and an Adafruit Ultimate GPS board and created a trip recorder for when he’s out on his boat. The Scroll pHAT displays the current speed in knots whilst the…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has used a Raspberry Pi and a USB microphone to create his very own Amazon Alexa clone. He goes through installation of the software, connecting it up to your Amazon account and starting the program up…
Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has been looking at the Energenie range of products and, more specifically, at a set of two sockets and control board that he bought. The control board, called the Pi-mote, is a GPIO…
Martin Fitzpatrick has taken a Scroll pHAT and attached it to a Raspberry Pi Zero to create a Tetris game. He’s then added several buttons to allow the user to control the pieces to play the game. One would imagine this…
Richard Hayler likes to keep fit but his recent job change has meant that he unable to get to fitness sessions with an instructor. He now exercises in his back garden but wanted some way of having a visible and…
Maker and Educator Spencer Organ has recently re-launched his website and can now be found at www.themakercupboard.space. As part of the re-launch, he’s blogged about his latest project – a Spiderman-themed lamp which changes colour when he is mentioned in a…
Colin O’Dell has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero W, an Adafruit 3.5″ touchscreen, a PIR motion sensor and a 3D-printed enclosure and created a home alarm control panel. The system uses Z-Wave door sensors which send MQTT messages to the Pi…
Ryan Moore has been in touch. He and a small team are running a new Kickstarter to fund the Juicebox Zero. The Juicebox is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi Zero that will power it from a LiPo/LiOn battery…
Educator Amanda Haughs wanted to use the Raspberry Pi Zero in a wearable project and incorporate the use of her grandmother’s embroidery machine. She had the idea of a tote bag and, with a bit of sewing and some wiring-up, together…
