Online retailer and innovator 4tronix have published an extensive guide to their motor controller board, the PiRoCon, detailing all the different connections and options available on the board. Well worth a look if you’re after something a bit more substantial for your motor control. You can currently pick one up for £14.75 from their store.
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!
Karl Herrick, together with his kids, built a Lego 4×4 Crawler remote controlled car then added a Raspberry Pi, with camera. He paired it with a Nexus 4 smartphone and used ssh to issue remote commands to control it.
Read all about it and see his code or watch his video below
Sandy Walsh has taken a Pi, a PiFace board, some extra bits and pieces and some bike handles from China and created a buzz-to-give-your-answer quiz set-up. The Foundation have covered it brilliantly on their blog.
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!
Ian Miller followed this tutorial and expanded it a bit and created his own version and published his code:
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.
Online retailer Phenoptix have also covered this story and they have the 3″ LCD displays in their shop.
