Oh no, not another list, I hear you cry! 🙂 Well, I wrote this one, myself, for The Pi Hut. It’s a collection of projects that you can do with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Obviously, it has a bit of…
Category: Accessories
Bunch of Raspberry Pi-related reviews over at RasPi.TV
Alex Eames has dug through his review pile and come up with 7 items (!) to look at. The items are as follows: PaPirus Zero from Pi Supply (£24) Displayotron Hat from Pimoroni (£22) Wombat board from Gooligum ($40 USD)…
Ben Nuttall’s top 10 add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
I don’t normally feature this kind of ‘list’, but it’s Ben Nuttall from the Foundation and I really appreciate his opinion. He’s picked his top 10 favourite add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi and published it over at opensource.com. Take…
Build a wearable time-lapse camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Adafruit has published a tutorial on creating a time-lapse camera using a Pi Zero, a camera module, a bit of power circuitry, a micro button and a 3D-printed case. Lovely project if you’ve got the 3D printing capability. Take a…
Mini persistence of vision rig using a Raspberry Pi Zero
Francesco Vannini has written a great tutorial which shows you how to create a persistence-of-vision device using a few components like an old CD, a PC fan, a battery and a hand-crafted LED bar. You can get some great results from…
Introduction to LiPo batteries by Average Man – definitely worth reading
Richard Saville (Average Man) saw a lot of people at Pi Wars 2015 using LiPo batteries to power their robots. He had always heard of the dangers of using these batteries and was more than a little wary of doing…
Finish off your Raspberry Pi Game Boy Zero with this guide
Wermy, who created the Game Boy Zero, has been blogging a how-to guide that shows you how to create your very own device using an old Game Boy and various parts. He has now finished the guide and you can read…
Robot face conversation using Sonic Pi on a Raspberry Pi
Robin Newman, who managed to do far more with Sonic Pi than I ever could, has done it again. This time, he’s programmed Sonic Pi with some voice samples which sends commands, via a (pretty darned excellent) PiCon Zero controller board, to two 4tronix…
LED bar graph driven from Sonic Pi using the RasPiO ProHAT and a Raspberry Pi
Robin Newman, who does some wonderful stuff with Sonic Pi amongst other things, recently received his RasPiO ProHAT experimenter’s kit and set himself a project. The project involved taking the components from the kit and adding a couple of capacitors and…
New products from The Pi Hut and Average Man for the Raspberry Pi
Today sees the release of two brand new products, available exclusively from The Pi Hut and designed by Richard Saville (aka the Average Man). The first is a very pretty new motor driver board called MotoZero. It allows you to control four…