Please note: these types of lasers can damage your eyes – so please, use appropriate eye-protection. Tucker Shannon has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and two stepper motor driver boards and then mounted a 5mw, 405nm laser pointer on top. He’s…
Simon Bugler has taken a Raspberry Pi, a Skywriter gesture-detection board and a RasPiO Inspiring circle and driver board and created this quite lovely Wheel of Fortune. By waving a hand over the Skywriter board, he can set the ‘Wheel’ going…
Moheeb Zara has taken a USB OBDII adapter, a Raspberry Pi, a GPS module and a Hologram Nova USB GSM modem and created a car fleet tracker. The project enables him to track a vehicle, or vehicles, geographically and map against…
Every minute, we lose an estimated six seconds of vision when we blink, according to research at the University of Tokyo. To combat this “problem”, students at the University of Bremen have developed a wearable camera that takes video footage when you blink.…
Dan Aldred runs a Raspberry Pi club and asked the kids what they wanted to create. They replied that they wanted to make a book that talks to you, or rather demands that you read it. First of all, they got…
For ages, I’ve been meaning to take one of these 4.3 inch TFT screens and embed a Raspberry Pi inside it. I realise, of course, that the resolution of the screen isn’t anything much (certainly not “high resolution” as it…
This is one of my rare not-strictly-Raspberry-Pi blog posts. Although using a Wemos, because the programming is in Micro Python, it wouldn’t be difficult to convert to using, say, an MCP3008 chip to read the analog values and then GPIO…
I recently posted a tutorial on using an HD44780 LCD (with I2C backpack) with the Raspberry Pi. I mentioned at the time that I had also been looking at small enclosures for the Pi in the hope of making something.…
Just a quick one this evening. Here’s a nice 3D printed enclosure for the Raspberry Pi from Paul-Louis Ageneau. It features two bays for hard drives that slide in, together with USB adapters. USB cables then connect the drives up…
Nuheat HOME thermostats cost around $200 a shot. Although very nice, they suffer from being destroyed by electricity spikes. Faced with needing yet another replacement, hacker Sergey has turned to the Raspberry Pi to provide a better, more cost-effective solution.In…
