I love a bit of steampunk, so this laptop caught my eye. Okay, so maybe you’d never want it on your lap, per se, but it’s still absolutely gorgeous. “Phrazelle” is the mind behind it and he created it for…
At the Pi Party, the lovely people from Pi Borg turned up with an ickle, tiny, tiny robot called BoB, aka The Bot of Bits. Made from a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Zumo Chassis, together with their new Thunderborg…
The MagPi has published their issue 56 review of the Western Digital PiDrive Compute Centre. The kit features a Raspberry Pi 3, a 375GB hard drive and a custom version of NOOBS (along with a keyboard and adapters) allowing you to…
Gareth, over at 4tronix, has been busy of late, developing the Playground system. Playground is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, Crumble and micro:bit that allows you to quickly and easily connect up various inputs and outputs using cables…
Self-described “avid hacker” Adam Ringwood has taken realism to new heights by connecting his real car up to a game of Mario Kart 64, running on a laptop. The reading of OBD-II telemetry data from the car’s onboard computer is done…
Andy Grove has created a musical instrument by adding 8 ultrasonic distance sensors to a Raspberry Pi, via an Octasonic breakout board. The software, which is available on GitHub, is written in the Rust programming language and the synthesizer is…
The Foundation have recently published a new tutorial which helps you to create your very own touchscreen photo booth which will tweet the photos. Dubbed “The All-Seeing Pi”, the contraption requires you to use the Raspberry Pi camera module, a…
As you’ll know if you’ve read this blog recently, or seen the side-widget, Alex Eames recently launched a new Kickstarter. Called RasPiO Inspiring, it’s a collection of geometric shapes with powerful ultra-bright APA102 LEDs that you can use to create sculptures…
Matthew Wagner wanted to develop a wireless IP camera for both his work and to attach to his dog’s collar. So, he’s taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a Pimoroni ZeroLipo and a RedBear IoT pHAT and soldered them altogether and…
Alex Eames, who was covered in a community profile yesterday, has used his RasPiO Inspiring system of bright LEDs in geometric shapes to create an illuminated pointing sign. He’s blogged about the mini-project, which involved some foam board, some…
