Shashank Sharma and his team have developed a backpack to aid visually-impaired users. The backpack, called BackMap, uses an app to input the location you’re trying to get to and then Raspberry Pi-powered motors attached to the straps vibrate to tell…
Category: Accessories
Solderless breadboard RetroPie gaming system uses a Raspberry Pi Zero
Here’s a great Instructable for those who are a bit put-off by soldering. It’s a full RetroPie gaming machine, with button controls, that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero. However, no soldering, 3D printing or laser-cutting is required – just some…
Candy Dispenser powered by a Raspberry Pi and an AIY projects kit
The hunt for the fabled issue #57 of The MagPi continues for many people. Rumours from the deep dark indicate that The Pi Hut had some… but then all was lost. Sold out within 20 minutes. The legend… continues… For those…
Google AIY kit with Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi – review
On Thursday, there was much excitement when The MagPi issue 57 was released to the public. The issue came bundled with a Google AIY Projects Voice Kit, including a Voice HAT, a microphone add-on board, a big arcade button, a speaker…
New MagPi comes bundled with free goodies for an artificial intelligence Raspberry Pi
Issue 57 of The MagPi is with us, and what a bumper issue it is. It comes with the hardware for a Google-powered artificial intelligence/voice recogniser project, or AIY Project. Here’s the MagPi’s description of the contents: Inside the…
Amazing music box is a live-performance looper using a Raspberry Pi 3
Music artist otem rellik (Toby Hendricks) has built an amazing musical instrument. It is a music samples looper that he created to replace his iPad for live performances. It features a Raspberry Pi 3 running Pure Data and a Teensy 3.6 for…
New learning resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation – GUIs! Theremin! Umm… Poo!
Every now and then, I review the Raspberry Pi learning resources page to find out what they’ve been working on. Today is one of those days! Getting Started with GUIs One of Laura‘s pet projects is GUI Zero, a wrapper for…
Set-up a wifi CCTV camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero W and motionEyeOS
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great tutorial that shows you how to set-up your Raspberry Pi with the motionEyeOS operating system. It lets you create yourself a CCTV camera that works over IP on your network.…
Track flights over your head with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, FlightAware and an SDR dongle
Mark Hughes has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for using FlightAware with a Zero W to track overhead flights. Obviously, it will work with any other Raspberry Pi, but the Zero W is a ‘cheap one’. He covers everything from…
Brian Corteil and Pimoroni team up to launch Raspberry Pi robotics kit
At Pi Wars, Coretec‘s Brian Corteil showed off his new robotics kit – the Tiny 4WD – on the Obstacle Course. Here’s a video of it in action: You can now get hold of a kit for this lovely little robot…