The guys over at Hypriot have been using Docker a lot. In this instance, they use Node.JS to drive a set of NeoPixels from the Pi. In the example, they use the Pi’s 5V power supply to provide the power…
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Use an external drive to drive your Raspberry Pi
Over at Adafruit, Brennen Bearnes has written a great tutorial and helper script that will enable you to use an external drive as a “root partition”. This means that although your Pi still boots from the SD card, thereafter everything else…
LEGO / Raspberry Pi rover
Xian has done a great job on this LEGO rover. It utilises Lego Power Functions and the Raspberry Pi and can be controlled via a web browser. He explains his build, with block diagrams and details on wiring and explains his use…
Powerful stepper motor board for the Raspberry Pi
The guys at Canadian company Roboteurs are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new stepper motor driver board – the SlushEngine. It looks like a stunning piece of kit and has the following features: Controls up to 4 bi-polar stepper…
Raspberry Pi powered ultrasonic sensing Minion Fart Gun triggering machine
Paul Weeks has taken his Pi, hooked it up to an ultrasonic sensor and then created a LEGO contraption that fires a Minion Fart Gun when the Pi detects someone is near. It sounds utterly mad and stupid and… well,…
Low-power E-paper display HAT for the Raspberry Pi
Percheron Electronics, which is spear-headed by Neil Matthews (who regularly attends and helps at our Cambridge Raspberry Jams), has just launched its first Kickstarter. The campaign seeks to raise funds to produce an e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi. The display…
Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…
Make your own Raspberry Pi powered mobile phone
Tyler Spadgenske has written an Instructable that shows you how to create your own mobile phone using a Raspberry Pi A+. He 3D-prints a case for the phone and then fills that case with components including an Adafruit FONA board (which…
Theatrical endeavour for one lucky Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ, who teaches at KESH Academy in Birmingham, had a problem: How to give a Tin Man a heart. For his school’s performances of The Wizard of Oz, he decided that a Raspberry Pi was the way to go.…
PiJuice – portable power for the Raspberry Pi
Not sure how I didn’t cover this before… Must have got caught up in Big Birthday Weekend stuff. Aaron Shaw from Pi Supply and his team have developed a new battery pack for the Pi called the PiJuice and are…