Over at OtherMod.com, the blog owner has been tearing down and rebuilding a Sony PSP and retrofitting it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I love projects like this: taking broken technology and using some Pi magic to make it usable…
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Send humidity & temperature sensor readings to Initial State from a Raspberry Pi
Rich Plakas has written a great tutorial on using the simple DHT22 temperature/humidity sensor with the Raspberry Pi in which he sends the readings to online IoT dashboard provider Initial State. He borrows a lot from other code (which he…
Moto Z modular Android phone gets a Raspberry Pi HAT adapter
Motorola and Element 14 have launched a development kit for creating add-ons for the new Moto Z mobile phone. As well as this kit, they’ve also announced that there will be a Raspberry Pi HAT adapter board (pictured above). It…
Get closer to science with this Raspberry Pi-controlled microscope
Andre Maia Chagas and his team, comprised of LL Prieto Godino, A Arrenberg and T Baden, have developed a Raspberry Pi-controlled microscope called FlyPi and entered it into the Hackaday Prize competition. Here’s what Andre has to say about the project: Our plan with this…
Directly connect to and program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
For a while, it has been possible to communicate and program a Raspberry Pi Zero via it’s USB data port. I’ve covered this useful feature before, beginning with Andrew Mulholland’s original work but I feel it’s worth covering again, particularly when…
Mobile data and GPS enabled Raspberry Pi Zero
Rachel Gibbs, over at Initial State, has written a great tutorial which gets a Pi Zero online via a mobile data connection. She’s added a GPS module to the FONA board and then powered the lot using a small LIPO…
Clock, weather and radar display built around a Raspberry Pi and a monitor
Kevin Uhlir has been in contact. He’s built a lovely clock by using a Raspberry Pi. Built into the screen of an old monitor, the Pi retrieves data from Weather Underground and maps from Google Maps. He’s built several of the…
Controlling a toy crane from Scratch on a Raspberry Pi using the SenseHAT
Albert Hickey wanted a new project to take to Jams. He’d seen the micro:bit controlling a toy crane so he got hold of one at Home Bargains. He used the SenseHAT as a controller and, thanks to a handy tutorial from…
GPIO Zero reference ruler for the Raspberry Pi – new Kickstarter
Alex Eames, of RasPiO and RasPi.TV fame has just launched his latest Kickstarter. This one is for a rather nice 30cm/12″ ruler filled with GPIO Zero reference code, as pictured above. Alex previously did an RPi.GPIO reference ruler that was half…
Controlling the Raspberry Pi using Bluetooth on the micro:bit
Barry Byford is a bit of a Bluetooth nut and he has turned his attention to the micro:bit and its Bluetooth interface. In this example (in the video above) he shows us how a micro:bit button press can be detected…