3D printing, Accessories, Bluetooth, Making

Ultra-mobile Raspberry Pi in a 3D-printed case

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Pole Ergo (I think his name is Guy, but I’m happy to be corrected) from Lyon in France has taken a Raspberry Pi and made it ultra-mobile using a hinged 3D-printed case. He’s removed several components of the Pi itself, shortened the GPIO pins and then added a small Bluetooth keyboard for input. A 5″ screen and a LiOn battery completes the picture. He’s written the project up on Thingiverse, where you can also download the case printing files and see a lit of photos of the build. Unsurprisingly, the write-up is in English and French.

Arduino, Blinkies, Geeky Techiness, Making

Engineer and father build a Star Trek warp core with a little Raspberry Pi help

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Chris Koolmees is an engineer and Star Trek fan and he wanted a project that he could accomplish during a week off work. With assistance from his father, Chris came up with the idea of building an almost life-sized reconstruction of the Warp Core from the USS Enterprise on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Most of the structure is made out of vacuum-formed plastic and painted MDF and is decorated with light strips which are controlled by an Arduino which is sent signals by a Raspberry Pi. Of course, it wouldn’t be complete without the famous warp core “breathing” sound, so it has speakers built in which are driven by the same Raspberry Pi. Instead of housing dilithium crystals, the warp core holds Chris’ home server. You can see it in action briefly below and read more about the build on Chris’ company website.

Competitions, Events, Robotics, Video

Raspberry Pi Robotic racing league Formula Pi – the Summer season final is this evening!

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Today at 6.30pm (BST), Pi Borg will hold the final of their brilliant robotic racing competition Formula Pi. Broadcast live on YouTube, the final features two classes: MonsterBorg and GrandPi and competition is sure to be fierce. Do robots hug the inside line and risk crashing into one another, or do they go for the outside line which theoretically takes longer but is ‘cleaner’? Find out today at 6.30pm by visiting the YouTube live stream.

Operating systems, Software, Tutorials

Write an SD card for your Raspberry Pi with a Chromebook running ChromeOS

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Like many people, I have a Chromebook. I use this machine whenever I can’t be bothered to unload my laptop, and for when I’m down in The Den (my large maker shed at the bottom of the garden, like fairies, only made of wood and bigger…). I’ve just come across this tutorial from Josh Haughton in which he uses a Chromebook in developer mode to access the dd utility and write an SD card image for the Raspberry Pi. Take a look here.