David Pride over at Cheltenham Hackspace has been busy designing for his new 3D printer. Taking inspiration from the Pi Blox case, he has designed a Zero-sized LEGO-compatible case. He’s uploaded all the necessary files to Thingiverse.
Category: Raspberry Pi Zero
GrovePi Zero – a Raspberry Pi sensor playground – review and sample project
Jamie Bailey’s been in touch. Over at Initial State, they’ve been playing around with the GrovePi Zero by Dexter Industries. It’s an add-on board that plugs into the Zero’s GPIO pins and gives you the ability to use Grove sensors, as…
Turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB plug-in dongle
Hacker NODE has worked out that if you solder a full-sized USB male connector to the data USB pads and power/ground lines on a Raspberry Pi Zero, you can just plug the Zero into your PC like a dongle and…
Raspberry Pi Zero used for the world’s smallest MAME Arcade Cabinet
Over at Adafruit, Philip Burgess has blogged about a marvellous little project involving a Raspberry Pi Zero. And when I say “little”, I mean “little”! They’ve used the Zero, together with a 0.96″ OLED display, an amplifier, some tiny speakers and…
Find out who’s at home or in the office by using a Raspberry Pi and Initial State
Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a “who’s at home/who’s in the office” service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi…
Raspberry Pi Zero used to bring new life to GameBoy Advance
Over on Imgur, user Ryzee119 has documented the process of turning a GameBoy Advance into a Pi-powered retro gaming console. Chosen primarily because of the shoulder buttons, the GBA has had its guts ripped out and replaced by a couple of custom…
Build your own solar-powered weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Brian Masney has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and hooked up a load of sensors to create a weather station. He has fixed solar panels to the top for power and the sensors include ones for wind speed and direction, rain, temperature,…
Raspberry Pi Zero helps to build a better Karaoke machine
Frustrated with an inability to find a cost-effective karaoke machine with enough useful features to make it workable, Harry Gonzalez-Rivera decided to take a cheaper karaoke machine and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside. He added a USB audio card and wi-fi adapter,…
Follow along with this excellent PSP / Raspberry Pi Zero build
Over at OtherMod.com, the blog owner has been tearing down and rebuilding a Sony PSP and retrofitting it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I love projects like this: taking broken technology and using some Pi magic to make it usable…
Turn your Raspberry Pi (Zero) into a dedicated VPN server
Transposed Messenger has written a great tutorial in which he explains how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated VPN. This will work with all Raspberry Pis, not just the Zero but he’s used the Zero because it’s cheap…