Wotcher @recantha here’s your pic. pic.twitter.com/U7rJmJGUKM — Neon Clock Tweet Bot (@NixieBot) December 1, 2016 Robin Bussell has created a Nixie Tube clock that listens out for a Twitter hashtag (#NixieBotShowMe) and then displays the tweet text on the tubes.…
Category: Blinkies
Internet of Things Christmas tree uses Alexa and a Raspberry Pi
Alex Ellis has taken a mini Christmas tree, a NeoPixel strip, some jumper wires and an Alexa/Echo Dot and created an Internet of Things device that is sure to get your blinkiness senses going. The Alexa communicates with the Raspberry…
Dude, Where’s My… Bus? A 3D-printed bus tracker housing a Raspberry Pi
Over at DesignSpark, Dr Lucy Rogers has written a great tutorial which fuses the Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, an ESP8266 module and some Neopixels into a bus warning system. The system has the following features: A visual alert to tell…
Creating a piece of Raspberry Pi powered Neopixel light furniture
James Poole has taken a string of Neopixels (UK/USA) and hooked it up to an Arduino. He’s then taken a Raspberry Pi and used it to control the Arduino via a web interface. James then mounted the whole lot on…
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap proves to be a versatile Raspberry Pi add-on
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs into the GPIO pins. It provides the following features: 12 conductive crocodile clip-compatible connection points High quality audio output via a 3.5mm jack A user-programmable RGB LED…
ZeroSeg from The Pi Hut / Average Man for the Raspberry Pi – review
A little while ago, The Pi Hut announced the launch of the ZeroSeg add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. I ordered one but it’s not until now that I managed to actually solder it up and have a play. So,…
World of Light – an interactive map with a Raspberry Pi
Joshua Krosenbrink works for Usabilla and he has presented them with the World of Light, a map of the world represented by 426 RGB LEDs. The Raspberry Pi runs an API that is used to send data to affect the map…
Amazing flaming art piece uses Raspberry Pi 3 to control 2000 blinkies!
A fantastic sculpture/musical instrument is currently being shown at various festivals in the United States. Le Attrata is an innovative fire sculpture created by Therm, made up of three stainless steel moths with 12-foot wingspans, set on top of 18-foot high spires. The…
Keeping track of vinyl records with a Raspberry Pi and lots of blinkies
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have just blogged this so I thought I’d share it with you. Mike Smith has a lot of vinyl records and he has trouble keeping track of where they all are located on his shelves. So, he took…
Derby Mini Maker Faire 2016 – thoughts and a highlights video
Today, I attended my first Maker Faire at the Silk Mill in Derby. Took a couple of hours to get there, and I have to say it was worth every minute of travel. Raspberry Pi highlights included Steve Upton and his…