Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there is a custom circuit board beneath the old, physical buttons that trigger commands on the Pi to pause, stop, play etc. You can see a video of the player in action below. Photo credit: Matt Brailsford
Here’s a nice project. A wearable Raspberry Pi powered by a LIPO running pifm and a Python script to play music. Not much detail on the page itself about the build, but he does list the components so you should be able to replicate it fairly easily if you’d like to. Read the page here.
Mike Haldas has written a great tutorial which uses free (well, it’s ‘free to get started’, not sure if it’s continually free) online service Instapush to send push notifications to an Android/iOS app on your mobile phone. His example application (for which he has provided the Python code) is wired up to a door opening sensor. Read the tutorial here.
Ron Ostafichuk has taken a full-size Dalek model and used a Raspberry Pi to control it. It even plays the Doctor Who theme tune when it’s ready to go! You have to watch the video to see it in action – it’s so cool – and Ron gives us an exciting look inside the workings. Leave Ron a comment or a like on the YouTube page. EXTERMINATE!!!
Andy Baker and Andrew Oakley are organising a Raspberry Jam in Cheltenham. They’re running the first one on 22nd November from 1-4pm at the HESA offices on the Promenade. You can find out more about the Jam on their website here and you can book (free) tickets here. Always great to hear about new Jams springing up! 🙂
With Birmingham, Hull and Southend all holding their own events that day, this looks to be a fabulous time of Jammy fun!
India-based Arvind Ravulavaru has written a great tutorial that uses Node.js on a Raspberry Pi to create an internet-of-things doorbell. Read the tutorial here and see the video below.
