Taking inspiration from their home town’s surfeit of public “street pianos”, Mike & Sean wanted to create something special. They came up with a piano that would record what was played on it and then allow the player, or even another player,…
Category: Art
Fireflies come alive in this art installation controlled by Raspberry Pi
Making it’s debut in the Olympus Photography Playground in Vienna in February 2015, Neon Golden’s art installation “Swarm” mimics the behaviour of fireflies via LEDs which are strung from the ceiling at various different heights. Using both Raspberry Pi and Arduino control…
Pi Wars programme cover design competition
On the day of Pi Wars, we hand out programmes to every competitor and every spectator. These programmes contain details about the competition and also about our sponsors. Here is what the programme looked like last year: This year, we…
Digital Zoetrope controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Brian Corteil has been working on his digital zoetrope for most of this year. At the recent Newcastle Maker Faire he showed off his creation. Later on, his brought it along to CamJam and showed the Raspberry Pi community what…
Raspberry Pis patrol the Tate galleries after dark
The Making of After Dark from The Workers on Vimeo. “After Dark” was an installation by artists The Workers which patrolled the halls of the Tate Modern and Tate Britain last year. Visitors to the AfterDark.io website were able to control the Raspberry Pi-powered…
PiPiano follow-up HAT for the Raspberry Pi launched
Pimoroni have announced the launch of their latest product, a new HAT which follows on from the excellent work of Zach Igielman and his PiPiano board. The board comes fully-assembled and uses 13 capacitive touch pads instead of physical buttons.…
Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8×8 Neopixel matrix on the…
Raspberry Pi alarm clock & music player surrounded by black walnut and maple
Peter Roca has created a piece of bedside furniture and embedded a Raspberry Pi into it. He calls it Bedbot, a Daytime Initialization Assistant. This beautifully constructed table, made out of black walnut and maple, acts as an alarm clock and…
Plotter made from two optical drives and a Raspberry Pi
Norbert Heinz cannibalised two optical drives for their parts, then hooked them up to a Raspberry Pi via a couple of H-bridge chips before adding an arm with a pen. This gave him a drawing mechanism that could be programmatically…
Aurora Borealis alert! Raspberry Pi and NeoPixels work together
James Singleton from BlinkinLabs has written a nice script that accesses data from Lancaster University’s Aurora Watch and then, if an Aurora Borealis is happening, displays an Aurora-like light show on a BlinkyTape, which is a strip of NeoPixels with a USB…