I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
Category: Retro
Finding a Raspberry Pi Zero retro emulator in the smallest of places!
Reddit user JamHamster has done this lovely retro emulator build out of an audio cassette and a Pi Zero W. The entire underside is a heatsink made out of aluminium (which is a bit of an overkill for a Zero,…
Dual-computer cyberdeck is beautiful, functional and very expensive to build!
Over at MSG Labs, they’ve created a wonderful new cyberdeck, confusingly called “The MSG”. Sporting an Intel NUC 10 (where most of the money went!) and a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB, The MSG has a KVM switch underneath the case…
Carnegie Mellon student retrofits a Polaroid camera with a Raspberry Pi, camera module and thermal printer
Sam Zeloof, who is currently studying electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University as an undergraduate has taken an old Polaroid camera and retro-fitted it with a Raspberry Pi W, a camera module and a thermal printer. He added two LiPo…
Floppy drive used for storage in this Raspberry Pi walkman music player
Terence Eden has created a device which will allow you to play music in what he calls the most inconvenient way possible. Labelled as “lo-fi awfulness and cyberpunk grungy”, this portable music player is a Raspberry Pi hooked up to…
Vintage radio hacked to produce Raspberry Pi-controlled AIY game
Dane, over at 8bitsAndAByte has taken a West German Telefunken radio and retrofitted it with a Raspberry Pi and a Google AIY Voice HAT and microphone (this is made from the original version, but I’m sure the new version would…
Make your own CPU with a micro:bit – a tutorial and background from Giles Booth
Giles Booth has written up a great educational project that involves using a micro:bit to show you how a CPU/processor works. This is what he said about his intentions: I decided my micro:bit CPU would be a 5-bit computer, rather…
Lorraine Underwood hacks vintage-style telephones with Raspberry Pis to create an intercom system
Lorraine Underwood has entered the Element14 #badass Women Makers and Engineers Contest with this great hack of a couple of vintage-style telephones from Amazon. She removed the plate on the bottom of the telephones and fitted a Raspberry Pi. She then…
Review of the new Pimoroni Picade for the Raspberry Pi
Les Pounder has published a review of the new Pimoroni Picade retro gaming machine over at electromaker.io. It’s a comprehensive build-and-function review which looks at both good points and bad points of the kit. Read the review here.
The Belgian beer company and their freestanding, Raspberry Pi-powered shuffleboard game
It must be summer – it’s all fun and games after the previous Pinball machine post! Grant Gibson was approached by Belgian beer brand Heverlee to create a fun in-bar experience. Grant remembered Sjoelen – a shuffleboard game popular across Germany, Belgium and the…