For those of you who don’t follow cinema avidly, I should first of all say: There’s a new Star Wars movie out. This one’s called ‘Solo‘ and is about the early day of everyone’s favourite smuggler Han Solo. By all…
Ken Walker has developed an Alexa skill which uses a Raspberry Pi and camera to take a picture and then use APIs and online services to determine what the camera can see. The Alexa device (say, an Echo) then reads out…
Zach Levine has taken an annoying toy (a Furby) and stuffed it with a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pimoroni Speaker pHAT and a stepper motor driver board. He has then installed the Amazon Alexa software on the Pi and programmed…
“anonteapot” on Imgur has created this lovely lookalike of an Amazon Echo Show. Using handcut MDF, he constructed a framework and then added some fabric purchased from John Lewis to complete the look. Into the back went a Raspberry Pi 3…
It’s always nice when you see an engineering project that attempts to really help people, and this is one of the best I’ve come across. A recent hackathon, hackABILITY, brought together teams to concentrate on providing solutions to disabled people. One…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has used a Raspberry Pi and a USB microphone to create his very own Amazon Alexa clone. He goes through installation of the software, connecting it up to your Amazon account and starting the program up…
