Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
Category: Sensors
“Digital Twin” concept uses a Raspberry Pi to model a mountain bike
International company PTC has unveiled a new concept known as a “Digital Twin”. They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. These sensors feed into a Raspberry Pi which interprets the data and creates a virtual ‘twin’…
Beginnings of a greenhouse monitor project using a Raspberry Pi
Romilly Cocking and his wife own an allotment about half a kilometre from where they live. Romilly wanted to set up a wireless monitor between the greenhouse on the allotment and their home. To do this, he’s experimenting with a…
Monitor pot-holes with a Raspberry Pi
George Mallingbury has taken a GPS serial device and an XLoBorg board (from PiBorg – it’s got an accelerometer on it) and attached them to his Pi. He’s then used some Python and SQL commands to record the jolts, jiggles…
Make your own Raspberry Pi-powered drum kit
Carmelito Andrade has written an excellent tutorial in which he uses the Adafruit Capacitive Touch HAT together with a Raspberry Pi Model A+ and some 3D-printed bits to create a Pi-powered drum kit. Read it here.
Build your own digital clock with a Raspberry Pi with this Kickstarter
David Saul is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Compatible with the B+, A+ and Pi 2, the PiMuxClock plugs into the 40-way GPIO header and stands up, giving you a large…
Raspberry Pi iBeacon system for bypassing theme park queues
Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…
Hook a Maplin weather station up to a Raspberry Pi
Dave Akerman has taken a Maplin weather station and hooked it up to his Raspberry Pi. He used a piece of software with the oh-so-catchy name of “pywws” to read in the data from USB and then uploaded his data to…
The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
David Taylor has written a comprehensive (and possibly bewildering) guide to setting up the Raspberry Pi as an NTP server (and therefore getting the correct time on your Pi). He uses various methods including a USB GPS receiver and also,…
Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…