Albert Hickey recently went to a Raspberry Jam and took along with him his latest project: a green-screen photo booth. The booth, which runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, uses Imagemagick to remove the colour green (provided by a green backdrop purchased from…
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Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT review from Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi
Over at The MagPi, they’ve posted a review of the Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT. It’s an add-on board kit for the Raspberry Pi which comes with the HAT itself, two servos and an articulated arm that sits on top of the…
Thermal-printing camera with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Over on Hackaday.io, Pierre Muth has documented his build of a Raspberry Pi Zero-based camera that prints photographs on an internal thermal printer. Called the PolaPi-Zero, it uses an Adafruit Nano Thermal Printer and some other parts as well as a 3D-printed case.…
Raspberry Pi used as a Rubik’s Cube solving machine
Francesco Georg has used a Raspberry Pi, a Camera Module, LEGO bricks, some EV3 motors and a BrickPi add-on board to create this Rubik’s Cube solving robot. He figured out how to use a two-phase algorithm developed by Herbert Kociemba via a…
Accio Raspberry Pi! Control a gesture-sensitive lamp with a Harry Potter wand
This is the second Harry Potter project in as many days! See yesterday’s Daily Prophet animated picture frame here. Sean O’Brien from Make has taken a Raspberry Pi and a Particle Internet Button and embedded them inside a lamp base. Also…
Build a motion-activated security camera with the Raspberry Pi Zero
Mark West, a Brit now living in Norway, was convinced that he had some unwanted visitors in his garden. So, he decided to press into action a Raspberry Pi Zero as a security camera solution. He shopped at The Pi…
NatureBytes Raspberry Pi-powered nature camera comes to The Pi Hut
A good few months ago, a new company called NatureBytes ran a Kickstarter to fund their Raspberry Pi-powered nature camera system. They delivered on their pledges in the middle of last year and they’re now at a point where they have a retail…
New issue of Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi is out with a live booting Raspbian/PIXEL DVD!
This month’s MagPi (issue 53) is out with all the regular projects, news and reviews you’ve come to expect. There’s a cover disc (DVD) containing the new x86 version of Raspbian/PIXEL for you to use on your home computer (this can…
Australia launches first ISS payload and with it a Raspberry Pi
Just picked up on this in NASA’s ISS update report for 19th December. Australia has just launched their first payload to the International Space Station. Onboard is a project called CubeRider, which appears to be a Raspberry Pi Model A+…
Live streaming to YouTube from your Raspberry Pi
Christian Cawley over at makeuseof.com has done a great tutorial on using avconv together with a Raspberry Pi camera module to stream to YouTube. Take a look here.