Andrew Gale previously ran a Kickstarter for a Christmas decoration powered by the Raspberry Pi. He has now re-spun his idea and has created a decoration using RGB LEDs. It plugs directly into the GPIO pins of the Pi. He has…
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Wearable tech Halloween competition from Element 14 – Win a Raspberry Pi 3
Element 14 are running a Halloween competition. They’re looking for creative wearable tech Halloween costumes. Winners will receive a goodie bag containing a Raspberry Pi 3. Entries must be received by midnight on the evening of 1st November. The full rules…
Halloween disco ball costume runs from a drone battery and a Raspberry Pi
Wolfie wanted to build a costume for his 12-year old granddaughter for this Halloween. He settled on the idea of a giant wearable disco ball (as you do) and set about building it out of suspended ceiling hanger wire.…
Pimoroni’s Micro Dot pHAT reviewed by Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi
In this month’s issue of The MagPi (the 50th), Phil King reviews Pimoroni’s Micro Dot pHAT. This little board features 6 micro-LED matrices that can be programmed independently. Read the review here. The pHAT is available from Pimoroni, The Pi Hut and…
Kickstarter for terrific robot kit featuring Raspberry Pi, Arduino and loads of blinkies!
Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Wearable blinky dress reacts to touches via a Raspberry Pi
Shaky snapchat vid of actual operation A video posted by Clodagh O’Mahony (@yodaomahony) on Aug 29, 2016 at 12:45pm PDT You know how much I love art projects? This is a good one! Thanks to Alex at the Foundation for…
Add personality to your projects with the McRoboFace for the Raspberry Pi
Gareth over at 4tronix has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund McRoboFace: 17 bright (Neopixel-type) RGB LEDs in a “friendly face” formation. The board is controllable from a Raspberry Pi, Crumble, Arduino and other base boards. I’ve featured the…
Create a two-person nuclear activation device with Raspberry Pi
Dylan Schuster over at losant.com has taken two Raspberry Pi 3s and hooked them up to two custom turn-key-and-button boxes. He’s then used Losant’s new MQTT and REST clients to make them Internet of Things devices. By sending messages from the…
Take one down and pass it around with the Raspberry Pi
The members of Noisebridge in San Francisco recently attended the Bay Area Maker Faire. They took with them Flaschen Taschen – a 10′ by 9′ display of 1575 clear bottles with WS2801/Neopixel strips embedded inside. Using a Raspberry Pi, these daisy-chained strips…