Recently, I reviewed the JustBoom AmpHAT and found it to be an excellent piece of kit for those that like their audio ‘just right’. Well, now it’s little brother, the Amp Zero pHAT has been used in a project that looks really lovely. Frederick…
Category: Art
Gun art installation plays music from a Raspberry Pi based on US arms exports
Constantine Zlatev, Kostadin Ilov and Velina Ruseva have taken a disabled shotgun and some salvaged industrial components and created a musical instrument. Called The Last Gun, is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino and uses compressed air to…
Mexican bacteriological experiment produces biology-driven music via a Raspberry Pi
A Mexican team of Paloma López, Leslie García, and Emmanuel Anguiano (together, they are known as Interspecifics) have created a nature-driven musical instrument. Micro-ritmos is an art installation in which ‘music’ is generated by patterns formed by bacterial cells. The material…
Self-playing wooden pipe organ uses a Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Wendell Kapustiak has built a self-playing wooden pipe organ. The organ has 42 wooden pipes (representing 3.5 chromatic octaves). Each wooden pipe is different and had to be custom-cut to play the right note. A “blower” used to cool data centres…
Amazing flaming art piece uses Raspberry Pi 3 to control 2000 blinkies!
A fantastic sculpture/musical instrument is currently being shown at various festivals in the United States. Le Attrata is an innovative fire sculpture created by Therm, made up of three stainless steel moths with 12-foot wingspans, set on top of 18-foot high spires. The…
Halloween disco ball costume runs from a drone battery and a Raspberry Pi
Wolfie wanted to build a costume for his 12-year old granddaughter for this Halloween. He settled on the idea of a giant wearable disco ball (as you do) and set about building it out of suspended ceiling hanger wire.…
Real sketching with the Raspberry Pi – Blackstripes
Jeroen van Goor and Johan ten Broeke from the Netherlands saw a V-plotter on the Polargraph website and decided that they wanted their own version to create works of art. What they came up with was Blackstripes. Powered by a Raspberry Pi…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Wearable blinky dress reacts to touches via a Raspberry Pi
Shaky snapchat vid of actual operation A video posted by Clodagh O’Mahony (@yodaomahony) on Aug 29, 2016 at 12:45pm PDT You know how much I love art projects? This is a good one! Thanks to Alex at the Foundation for…
Hand weaver gets a Raspberry Pi assisting loom
Fred Hoefler has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered motorised assistant for a hand weaver. The problem with hand weaving is that it is hard on the hands and arms and older weavers are often unable to continue their work due to…