Ethan Dell is a full-time computer vision engineer who enjoys developing and experimenting with the Raspberry Pi. He has documented a great method of using the Pi (in this case, a Raspberry Pi 4) to do object detection when driving…
Alex Eames has been doing a lot of cycling recently as part of a keep-fit regime, and just for fun. He’s decided to make himself a bike dashcam. The set-up will include a Pi 3A+ at the front and a Zero at…
Maker Medinc has taken a Raspberry Pi, a couple of Tiny Lidar sensors and a 32×32 LED matrix and created a practical parking assistant. The two sensors are attached to the car at the back and side and then wired through…
Moheeb Zara has taken a USB OBDII adapter, a Raspberry Pi, a GPS module and a Hologram Nova USB GSM modem and created a car fleet tracker. The project enables him to track a vehicle, or vehicles, geographically and map against…
Andy Felong needs a bit of assistance when parking in his garage because there’s a ladder sticking out just in the wrong place. A typical bodge-it solution would be to hang a tennis ball from the ceiling so that it touches the…
French car manufacturer Renault are to launch an open source car platform called POM (based on Twizy), it was announced at CES last week. What seems to have slipped under the radar is that there are two Raspberry Pis on…
Varun Adibhatla and Graham Henke are two graduates from New York University. They have developed a system which records the condition of roads and then generates a clickable, interactive map that displays the position of road imperfections (such as pot…
Here’s an interesting blog/tutorial. “Mike” takes you through several steps you can take to optimise and firm-up your solid-state file system, in our case the SD card of the Raspberry Pi. It should guard against SD card corruption as much…
Yesterday, I reviewed the e-paper HAT from Percheron Electronics. Today, I came across a tweet from HAT-creator Neil Matthews which introduced me to an excellent blog post from Chris Jones of London. He has used the HAT to create a ‘next bus’…
