Robin Newman has taken a Raspberry Pi, a RasPiO Pro HAT and an Adafruit MPR121 touch capacitive breakout and created a touch-sensitive keyboard for Sonic Pi. He’s documented the whole process over on his blog along with all the installation instructions and…
Category: Sensors
Heart-rate monitor uses a Wemos, a small OLED display and MicroPython
This is one of my rare not-strictly-Raspberry-Pi blog posts. Although using a Wemos, because the programming is in Micro Python, it wouldn’t be difficult to convert to using, say, an MCP3008 chip to read the analog values and then GPIO…
palmPi – (yet another) handheld Raspberry Pi device
I recently posted a tutorial on using an HD44780 LCD (with I2C backpack) with the Raspberry Pi. I mentioned at the time that I had also been looking at small enclosures for the Pi in the hope of making something.…
Multiple movement sensors and a Raspberry Pi can bring a virtual reality game character to life
Jean Perardel has taken several Arduino Fio boards, 6-Degrees-of-Free sensors and a Wii Nunchuck and attached them to his body to detect movement and orientation. The signals are received by an Arduino Micro and a Raspberry Pi is then used to interpret…
Pretend you’re Tony Stark with this Iron Man / Raspberry Pi build
Michael Darby has been supported by ModMyPi for his latest project – an Iron Man mask with an in-built heads-up display and it’s all driven from a Raspberry Pi Zero. He’s taken the Pi, a LiPo battery, an Enviro pHat and some optical equipment…
Make your own LED sand simulator toy with Adafruit and a Raspberry Pi Zero
The Ruiz Brothers over at Adafruit have created a really lovely sand simulator using a Raspberry Pi Zero, an accelerometer, an RGB LED matrix display, some small items and 3D-printed parts. Philip Burgess wrote the code which “simulates physics by calculating…
Parking assistance from a Raspberry Pi replaces a tennis ball
Andy Felong needs a bit of assistance when parking in his garage because there’s a ladder sticking out just in the wrong place. A typical bodge-it solution would be to hang a tennis ball from the ceiling so that it touches the…
Create your own Star Trek combadge with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Michael Darby wanted to make something like a Star Trek combadge that would respond to voice commands. He took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pimoroni Speaker pHAT, a momentary touch sensor breakout board, some power circuitry and a USB microphone…
Build your own radio telescope with a Raspberry Pi
Instructables user ElectricSpace has written a great tutorial on creating your very own radio telescope with a Raspberry Pi. He’s listed all the parts you’ll need and documented how to do the build. Great for astronomers! Read how he did it…
Make your own VR goggles using a Raspberry Pi Zero
Caleb has put together this lovely hack which involves a Raspberry Pi Zero, an accelerometer breakout board, a 5″ TFT screen, some cables and a shedload of cardboard. It all comes together as a pair of VR goggles and uses…