Richard Saville, aka Average Man, has been testing out the ModMyPi PiOT relay board. He goes through the various functions of the board and even tries them out using a cheap Dremel-like hand drill… He does, however, point out that…
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Powering your Raspberry Pi from a LiPo the right way
Powering a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery isn’t a piece of cake. Fortunately, a couple of expert hackers have done the work for you by writing up the methods. Building on Daniel Bull’s work to power a Raspberry Pi from a…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Pi Supply launches JustBoom – a range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Supply have launched a massive range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. Called JustBoom, the range includes the following: DAC HAT – a plug and play, high resolution, digital-to-analog converter (£30). Digi HAT – producing an unmodified, high quality,…
Powering your Raspberry Pi – a nice round-up
Richard Saville (Average Man Vs Pi) also writes for about.com for their Raspberry Pi site. He’s done a great round-up of powering options, from the easy to the slightly more difficult to manage (LiPos, I’m looking at you, stop sniggering at…
Raspberry Pi retro gaming inside an NES cartridge
There’s lots of retro projects out there – you’ll have seen a lot of them on this blog before! Here’s another! 🙂 Zach has taken an NES cartridge (Back to the Future… because it’s not very good!), ripped the guts…
Timelapse video photography with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Spencer Organ recently spoke at CamJam about his timelapse video rig (pictured above). It uses an Arduino in combination with the Raspberry Pi (and it’s associated camera module) to pan across a landscape, taking photographs every so often as defined…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Use a micro:bit and your Raspberry Pi to cause earthquakes in Minecraft
Martin O’Hanlon is a Minecraft programming guru and he’s come up with a great method of using a micro:bit to generate earthquakes inside Minecraft: Pi Edition. You hook one of your micro:bit’s pins up to a GPIO pin on the…
Programming the Raspberry Pi and an Oculus Rift with VR Zero
At a CamJam long past, Wayne Keenan brought along a Raspberry Pi running a virtual reality demo viewed with an early version Oculus Rift. Looking something like the image above, it featured a brick pi symbol floating on a sea of green…