“makerblog” has written an Instructable that takes you through the process of embedding a Raspberry Pi into an old rotary phone. Beginning by stripping the innards out of the phone before mounting the Pi inside, he has supplied all the…
Category: Retro
Building a Raspberry Pi B+ into a vintage Apple extended keyboard
Apologies for the lack of posts over the past few days. Pi Wars took up all my energy and I’ve been recovering since then! Plus, I’ve had a few nights out on the trot which means I’ve been unable to get…
FUZE with Raspberry Pi goes retro with new-look special edition
The makers of FUZE, the hard-wearing, all-in-one Raspberry Pi computer, have just launched a special edition. Called the T2-SE, this has everything their normal T2 has, including a breakout board that gives you not only normal, digital input/output but analogue input…
The Raspberry Pi – bringing programming back
Stuart Leithes from ITV News has done a lovely report in which he interviews Gordon Hollingworth of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Jason from Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History about bringing programming back into education and how this is being…
Bringing a teletype back to life with the Raspberry Pi
Robert Coggeshall (Sudo Bob) has taken a 50-year old teletype unit and resurrected it, thanks to the Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components. You can read about the build and find out more here.
Retro-fit your old Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi
We’ve seen it before: a Gameboy mod with a Pi inside. Well, this Instructable tells you how to do it yourself. Tim G has used a Raspberry Pi Model A and various other, fairly cheap, components in this tutorial which…
Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes!
Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there…
Raspberry Pi powered full-size Dalek!
Ron Ostafichuk has taken a full-size Dalek model and used a Raspberry Pi to control it. It even plays the Doctor Who theme tune when it’s ready to go! You have to watch the video to see it in action…
Sinclair TV LCD conversion with a Raspberry Pi
Nathan Chantrell has taken an old, non-functioning Sinclair TV and given it new life with a Raspberry Pi. He had to de-solder some of the components on the Pi to make it fit and used custom kernel modules to get the…