Maker/enthusiast Mr Fid has taken a cheap pair of video goggles and attached a Raspberry Pi, a Pi NoIR camera and an IR light source. He has then fed the composite video output of the Pi into the goggles and…
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Remote-control lawnmower powered by a Raspberry Pi
A recent 24-hour StartFEST hackathon has awarded first prize to three brothers from Salt Lake City, Utah. Dan, Doug and David Leonard used a Raspberry Pi to control wheels connected to two drill motors that propelled a lawnmower across the garden. They…
Raspberry Pi pong game uses crane controllers
Here’s a nice bit of silliness for you. A German crane manufacturer asked “hwhardsoft” to create a game that used the company’s crane controllers. So, that’s what they did – the created a Pong game using Python and then adapted…
Pairing a bluetooth keyboard with the Raspberry Pi
Using a Bluetooth keyboard can be a pain in the backside. Fortunately, Tom Herbison has written a neat little tutorial on how to get it working. Read it here.
Make your own weather station with some sensors and a Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Prototyping from down under – a review of the Wombat prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville, aka the Average Man, has just published his review of the Wombat Board. This board is ideal for prototyping and carries a full-sized breadboard, an analogue-to-digital converter and plenty of other bits and pieces. It was originally a…
Use a Codebug to take pictures with your Raspberry Pi
Codebug, the ex-Kickstarter project, is now on sale at CPC for £15. The small board can be connected up to a Raspberry Pi via USB and used as an input device via a Python library. Thomas Macpherson-Pope has, over on the…
CamJam EduKit 3 – Robotics for the Raspberry Pi announced
At the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on Saturday, myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann from The Pi Hut announced the third CamJam EduKit. This kit is all about robotics. You can catch the launch video below or skip it and read…
Old gaming console converted into a Raspberry Pi retro machine
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old Grandstand Scramble gaming console and adapted it for use with the Raspberry Pi. He’s got a 5″ HDMI TFT screen (which gives a resolution of 800×480) for the display and used the Picade controller…
Picade review – retro Raspberry Pi goodness!
Sandy Macdonald has done another one of his beautifully-written posts. This time, he’s taken on Pimoroni’s Picade, the build-it-yourself retro gaming console. He covers the hardware, including assembly, and the software as well as how he modded his console with…