Tejas Ozarkar has fashioned this stylish music player from a Raspberry Pi, some perfboard, some sensors and a bit of wiring. The circuit he’s built allows you to increase and decrease the volume (by raising/lowering your hand above an ultrasonic…
Amsterdam-based Dendroboard forum user Corbosman has finally gotten around to having a Terrarium built and he controls the whole thing with a Raspberry Pi. His environment measures 120x60x110cm (48x24x42″) and it focuses on the growing and cultivation of orchids; eventually, it will…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has done a great tutorial on setting up a SenseHAT as a weather station. He goes through all the software and the Python code you will need. He’s also connected it up to the Initial State service…
Mark Hughes has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for using FlightAware with a Zero W to track overhead flights. Obviously, it will work with any other Raspberry Pi, but the Zero W is a ‘cheap one’. He covers everything from…
Ingmar Stapel has written several tutorials concerning differential GPS positioning using the RTK library. He’s brought it all together for Hackster.io in the process of developing his robot, Big Bob (pictured above). That’s enough to give you nightmares! Take a look…
Gareth, over at 4tronix, has been busy of late, developing the Playground system. Playground is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, Crumble and micro:bit that allows you to quickly and easily connect up various inputs and outputs using cables…
Self-described “avid hacker” Adam Ringwood has taken realism to new heights by connecting his real car up to a game of Mario Kart 64, running on a laptop. The reading of OBD-II telemetry data from the car’s onboard computer is done…
Andy Grove has created a musical instrument by adding 8 ultrasonic distance sensors to a Raspberry Pi, via an Octasonic breakout board. The software, which is available on GitHub, is written in the Rust programming language and the synthesizer is…
David Whale (@whaleygeek), who some of you will know (he goes to a lot of events and does loads of outreach work, especially with micro:bit and the IET, and also runs a Raspberry Pi club in Harlow) and Jonny Austin, CTO of the…
Here’s a good little tutorial I found on GitHub. It uses an 801s vibration module and a Raspberry Pi Zero to detect vibrations from a home appliance, such as a washing machine. If it detects stillness for a specified amount of…
