German electrical engineering student Tobias Lauxtermann has taken a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino MEGA and several other boards and bits and pieces and created a set of Christmas decorations that are controllable over the Internet. The Pi runs a Node.JS…
Gavan Fantom decided that new-fangled electronic LEDs weren’t enough for his office Christmas festivities. So, he came up with this beautiful 8×8 electro-mecahnical display. Each pixel is controlled by a 3D-printed mechanism that is screwed back and forth to change…
In recent Channel 4 documentary Guy Martin Versus the Robot Car, they had a need to construct a robotic teasmaid. Called R2‑Tea2, and built by Running in the Halls, the teasmaid uses an Adafruit 16-channel PCA9685 PWM/servo board (USA/UK) and 2 H-bridge DC…
Dr Adrian Rosebrock has written several tutorials on deep learning with Python image searches. Well, now he’s used a Raspberry Pi and deep-learning system Keras to develop a video stream detector that alerts you when Santa Claus enters the frame and…
Review by Tim Richardson What is it? The Anavi Light pHAT is a board that sits on top of your Raspberry Pi and controls 12v RGB light strips – not the expensive Neopixels or WS2811’s, but the cheap RGB strips…
The inimitable Mr Les Pounder has written up a brilliant project in which he utilises a string of Neopixel-like lights to give his Christmas Tree some blinky cheer. Soldered up on a ProtoZero board, the circuit requires a few bits…
Average Man (Richard Saville) has been continuing his resurgence into the world of Raspberry Pi. This time, he’s chosen to build a Plex server monitor out of a Raspberry Pi and a 20×4 LCD screen. He’s used the Plex API…
Computer engineering student Shoyu has created a four-legged insect robot which uses a Raspberry Pi 3 and an IO Expander Board to control the servos. He’s added a Camera Module and then created a control interface that can be used…
Just recently launched on Kickstarter, Pip is a portable “digital creation” device based around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Let’s take a look at the product, and I’ll give you my opinion at the end. Hardware The Pip is based…
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV fame has run several excellent crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, normally delivering ahead of time and providing lots of communication along the way. His latest is for the RasPiO FullpHAT and he’s running it as a 7-day campaign from his…
