Jeff Highsmith, who created a Mission Control Desk for his kids earlier this year, has now unveiled his latest creation. It’s a command capsule that mimics the Apollo moon missions! Made out of wood, it has 38 switches of various…
Category: Arduino
Stop freezing pipes with the #RaspberryPi and a new #Arduino board
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV has invented a new board that plugs into the Raspberry Pi. Called a RasPiO duino, it’s programmable from the Pi and will also work away from the Pi providing it’s given a power source. He has…
Stripped down #RaspberryPi brings new life to Gameboy
Travis Brown has taken an old Gameboy and squeezed inside a stripped-down Raspberry Pi, a composite screen, a battery and several smaller components and created a beautiful retro gaming device. His full account of the build including loads of photographs…
Assembling the RasPiO duino for the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames has been very busy of late. Not only has he been running the HDMIPi project but he’s also been working on a series of GPIO boards. One of the latest, the RasPiO duino, which brings the power of…
Nice portable handheld retro emulator with a #RaspberryPi
3Derp has used his 3D printer to create a case for his Raspberry Pi and then added a battery pack, TFT monitor and a Teensy 2.0 to create a beautiful handheld which runs the RetroPie distro. Read more/see more pics…
Program the ATtiny85 from the #RaspberryPi
Instructables member prb3333 has written an extensive tutorial (with code) on programming an ATtiny85 microcontroller chip from the Pi. You have to do some compilation (of avrdude) first and wire the chip up in a certain way on a breadboard.…
Monitor your plants with PlantPi – #RaspberryPi and #Arduino working together
A group of year 11 students from Frome College have entered (and won one of the prizes) the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi inventions contest. Jake Malley, Gabriel Barnes and Alex Osbourne have linked together a Raspberry Pi and an ATMega328P-PU…
#RaspberryPi powered dartboard
Hopefully the headline alone should have got you intrigued. Daniel Fett from Germany has developed a digital dartboard (PiDart) where the dart hits are registered by an Arduino Mega and then sent to the Pi which records the hits and…
ZX-Pi – a Pi inside a Sinclair ZX-81
Tony Smith previously worked out how to use an Arduino Leonardo to connect a ZX81 keyboard to the Pi. He’s now gone a step further and actually managed to get the Pi inside the ZX-81. Brilliant stuff. Read more here
Add an #Arduino to your #RaspberryPi using the Pi Co-Op
Dawn Robotics have created a new board for the Pi. It’s actually been out since January but they’ve just started to market the product, and what a product it is. In fact, if you’ve ever wanted to explore the world…