Richard Deininger has built a Squeezebox using a Pi and an Adafruit PiTFT and encased the whole thing inside a surplus NATO ammunition box. A Squeezebox is a network streaming device that sends MP3s over a LAN. Read about how…
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Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…
Raspberry Pi housing with an integrated screen and keyboard – the PiKasa
I was contacted by South Africa-based Ian Harrison who, together with his team, is doing a crowdfunding campaign to fund the PiKasa. The PiKasa is a housing for the Raspberry Pi with an integrated 800×480 screen, a splash-proof keyboard, a 5-port…
1981 portable VCR Raspberry Pi media centre
MisterM has taken a 1981 Sharp VC-2300H portable VCR unit, refurbished it, stripped it out and fitted a Raspberry Pi inside to use it as a media centre. He’s retro-fitted an old VHS cassette tape with a USB hub which…
Raspberry Pi Lunchbox Arcade machine
This is quite an old blog entry, but not one I think I’ve covered before. Stiggy has taken a plastic lunchbox, some arcade controls and created an arcade machine! The arcade controls are linked to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO and he’s…
Converting a wifi router into a case for the Raspberry Pi
Ted Hale has taken an old Linksys router, ripped the guts out and converted it into a (rather large) case for his Raspberry Pi. He’s now moved on to adding LED indicators (because everything is better with blinkies!) Read more…
Building a Raspberry Pi B+ into a vintage Apple extended keyboard
Apologies for the lack of posts over the past few days. Pi Wars took up all my energy and I’ve been recovering since then! Plus, I’ve had a few nights out on the trot which means I’ve been unable to get…
FUZE with Raspberry Pi goes retro with new-look special edition
The makers of FUZE, the hard-wearing, all-in-one Raspberry Pi computer, have just launched a special edition. Called the T2-SE, this has everything their normal T2 has, including a breakout board that gives you not only normal, digital input/output but analogue input…
FLIRC – a new case for the Raspberry Pi
The Pi Hut and FLIRC have just launched a new case for the Raspberry Pi Model B+. I was lucky enough to be given one to review, so here’s my take on this latest entry to the market. The FLIRC…
Raspberry Pi Model A+ case options
Photo credit: Alex Eames, RasPi.TV Alex Eames has done a round-up video of the case options available to you if you own a Raspberry Model A+. It’s quite a short video but it does showcase both the cases you can…