Instructables user Osprey22 has written a piece of Python which acts as a sequencer based on an imported MP3 file to drive sets of Christmas tree lights. He’s written the whole thing up as a tutorial, so head on over…
Category: Art
Make a digital garden with the Raspberry Pi and the Pibrella
Here’s a great video from Carrie Anne Philbin on her YouTube channel the Geek Gurl Diaries. In this, she uses the Pi, a Pibrella, some motors and bits and pieces, together with a Python script, to create a ‘digital garden’. It’s…
Scary Pi-ano with a Raspberry Pi and Makey Makey
Stewart Watkiss (aka Penguin Tutor) has posted details of his 9-year old daughter’s Halloween project. It uses a Makey Makey and conductive Playdough to send commands to a Raspberry Pi which then plays (via Scratch) various sounds and generates lighting…
Surveillance jacket controlled by Raspberry Pi
South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yung Hun, together with costume designer Jehee Sheen, have created a jacket embedded with dozens of cameras which can be used to capture a 360-degree picture of the wearer’s environment. At the…
Spooky Raspberry Pi Halloween happenings in the Lost Gardens of Heligan
Phil Atkin met Stuart Pemberton a few weeks ago at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. They realised they were both fans of the Raspberry Pi and Stuart revealed a project that he’d been tasked to do: create a visitor attraction…
Your document will self destruct with a Raspberry Pi
Supported by the Mexican government, Newcastle, England-based artist Diego Trujillo Pisanty has created a device that prints out documents and then immediately destroys them in a flash of flame and smoke. It was inspired by what happened with Edward Snowden and…
Raspberry Pi for Artists workshop in New York
New York-based digital artist and developer Bruno Kruse is running a workshop in Brooklyn on 20th September from 12pm-7pm for artists who want to use the Raspberry Pi to develop installations. Here’s some info from the event page: This workshop is…
Canal Museum art installation with a Raspberry Pi
DesignSpark user Nye Thompson was invited to create a piece of artwork to be displayed at the Canal Museum in London. She took the Pi, added a camera module and a projector and created the installation, called SLURP!, so that…
Building a vertical plotter with the #RaspberryPi
Brandon Green has created a Polargraph. It’s a vertical old-fashioned plotter that uses a program written in ‘Go’ on the Raspberry Pi to send commands to an Arduino which then controls two stepper motors connected to thread to move the…
Fantastic audio art installation with a #RaspberryPi
Dominic Wilcox and James Rutherford have teamed up to create Binaudios, an art installation project in Sage Gateshead. Using an enormous pair of “tourist binoculars” you can point yourself towards various landmarks and “hear” what’s going on there, with sounds…