Wermy, who created the Game Boy Zero, has been blogging a how-to guide that shows you how to create your very own device using an old Game Boy and various parts. He has now finished the guide and you can read…
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Set-up Raspberry Pi Zero OTG without a keyboard, mouse, screen etc
Andrew Mulholland previously posted about using the Raspberry Pi Zero over USB OTG, i.e. programming a Zero over just a USB cable from another machine such as a laptop. Thanks to some improvements to the Raspbian operating system and a…
Body movements create music with the help of a Raspberry Pi and Arduino sensors
Calvin Cherry, an electrical engineer graduate of University of Wisconsin – Madison, has created a new musical instrument called Music from Motion which adds layers of instrumental samples as he moves different parts of his body. Stop sniggering at the back!…
Raspberry Pi-powered, GPS-enabled metal detector robot
Ingmar Stapel from Munich has created a robot that will carry out metal-detecting activities. The robot is fitted with a GPS to track location and a pan-and-tilt camera to enable the person who is controlling it to see where they…
60 core supercomputer made out of Raspberry Pis
YouTube user Phaxmohdem has built a 15 Raspberry Pi 2 (60 core) supercomputer cluster into a portable toolbox. He is using a 300W power supply for it but it only draws about 45W when under full load. He’s done some benchmarks but…
SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…
Emergency spaceship simulator game has a Raspberry Pi server
The boffins at York Hackspace have created a demonstration piece called SpaceHack for Maker Faires and other events that simulates an emergency situation onboard a spacecraft and then invites players to work together to keep it operating for as long as…
Raspberry Pi-powered book scanner for Ethiopean education
Following the lead of a Dean from an Ethiopean university, who could see that the high cost of textbooks was holding back developing world countries, a group has got together to build a €500 book scanner that turns the pages…
Giant running wheel for cats uses Raspberry Pi for measurements
http://i.imgur.com/Oh2YlGa.webm Jasper Ruben built his cats a ‘hamster wheel’ for exercise and just for general cat-happiness-quotient. He’s connected up some sensors to it and these feed data back to the Raspberry Pi which calculates speed and distance travelled. A gallery…
Create your own Raspberry Pi HAT with The MagPi
The MagPi has published a tutorial that teaches you how to prototype your very own, simple Raspberry Pi HAT. They work with a breadboard to start with and go through the process of flashing the EEPROM. Read it here.