Terrific video celebrates 2 years of the #RaspberryPi

Matthew Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has cut together a fantastic video showing dozens of projects created using the Raspberry Pi and other, historic, clips to give an overview of the last 2 years of Pi-related goodness. Well worth a watch. Don’t forget to visit the YouTube page to leave a comment!

Music: Perpetuum Mobile by Simon Jeffes © Editions Penguin Cafe Ltd. Performed by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra from the album “Concert Program” ℗ 1995 Zopf Ltd

Make a laser engraver out of two DVD drives and a #RaspberryPi

Xiang Zhai has done just that. He ripped the two laser diodes out of a pair of drives and then put them together with some other cheap components, attached a Pi for control and lo and behold he’s ended up with a laser engraver!

Read more about it here

Ian Miller followed this tutorial and expanded it a bit and created his own version and published his code:

#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console

This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen.

Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery and come up with a fully portable Raspberry Pi retro gaming device.

Read how he did it here

Online retailer Phenoptix have also covered this story and they have the 3″ LCD displays in their shop.