Matt Wagner has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a RedBear IoT HAT for wifi connectivity, a 2″ Adafruit screen and some power circuitry and fitted everything into an Altoids Tin, thus creating a portable Pi workstation. It’s even got a…
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Get started with Node-RED with this worksheet from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
I’ve just spotted this new resource on the Raspberry Pi website’s resources section. It shows you how to get started with controlling the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins using visual programming language Node-RED. It’s a nice tutorial and helps you get…
Make an electronic name badge with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a PaPiRus
Josh King has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero, a PaPiRus 2″ e-ink HAT, an Adafruit Powerboost 1000c and a LiPo battery and made himself a name badge. He’s written the whole thing up as an Instructable which you can read here. Thanks to…
Raspberry Pi mini-laptop uses official 7″ screen
I’ve been waiting for this for a while: a laptop using the official 7″ screen for display. Surferboy has uploaded 3D printing files for this project which uses a Pi 3, a Rii keyboard and the official display which is…
Thermal-printing camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
New MeArm Pi for the Raspberry Pi is a real attention grabber
A couple of years ago, Ben Gray ran a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for the MeArm – a robotic arm. Now, he’s teamed up with Ben Pirt to form Mime Industries. They are now running their own Kickstarter for the next…
Formula Pi laser timing rig using a Raspberry Pi – find out how it was done
Wirelessly control an ESP8266 with MQTT messages from a Raspberry Pi
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered thumb harp (English and French versions)
Here’s another tutorial, this time in the form of an Instructable, although it’s not for the ‘beginner’. It uses wires of different lengths, an accelerometer to detect different vibrations caused by plucking the wires and an MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter chip to…
Monitor your home appliances with a Raspberry Pi and vibration sensor
Here’s a good little tutorial I found on GitHub. It uses an 801s vibration module and a Raspberry Pi Zero to detect vibrations from a home appliance, such as a washing machine. If it detects stillness for a specified amount of…