This is a ridiculous project, but that doesn’t make it any less cool. “Alexzpro” has created a steam boiler (with water heated by two propane blow torches!) which drives a two-cylinder steam engine. The engine turns a motor which generates power.…
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Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 hosted some of the RPF site on launch day
Pete Stevens from Mythic Beasts has described on the Raspberry Pi blog how a Raspberry Pi 2 and a Raspberry Pi 3 were pressed into action on the Pi 3 launch day to handle some of the traffic. It makes for interesting…
Comparative speed test and review of the Raspberry Pi 3
Christopher Barnatt of ExplainingComputers has published a video in which he reviews the Raspberry Pi 3 and then compares it side-by-side against a Raspberry Pi 2. He boots both machines, opens LibreOffice Writer and also runs a complex filter using GIMP.…
Retro gaming Raspberry Pi Zero crammed into an Altoids tin
Sometimes you see a project that just makes you smile. This is one such. As you can see from the video above, it’s a mini Raspberry Pi Zero-powered retro gaming machine crammed into an Altoids tin. Not much detail other…
Star Trek LCARS interface on the Raspberry Pi using Pygame
Toby Kurien has released a video (see above) and accompanying code for a Pygame-driven implementation of the famous Star Trek LCARS interface. It’s really top-notch work, with sound effects and everything. One of my personal holy grails, so I’ll be dipping into…
Nintendo GameCube with a Raspberry Pi inside
Andreas Jabs from Germany has taken an old GameCube and retro-fitted it with a Raspberry Pi 2. He has brought the Pi’s USB ports to the front of the case so that he can attach various controllers and has 3D…
iPhone game played automatically with a Raspberry Pi and a Gertbot
Junya Sakamoto wanted a little help with the later levels of Puzzle & Dragons (which is big in Japan). So he added a Gertbot to his Raspberry Pi and then hooked up some motors and a rig to allow the Pi to…
Portable Raspberry Pi Geiger counter
Jeff Cartwright has put together a lovely Instructable for creating a portable Geiger counter using a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit, which communicates over serial to the Pi, added a PiTFT to display things on and then fashioned a…
Building a massive cricket scoreboard on a shoestring budget with a Raspberry Pi
A bunch of amateur hackers from Gloucestershire have created a digital scoreboard for their cricket club using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as the master controller for an Arduino which controls the 7-segment displays. The interface is then accessed…
RasPiO Duino LCD kit – review
Alex was kind enough to send me one of these kits but I’m free to say what I like. This kit is all about learning how to display data onto an LCD screen from analog temperature sensors. The basic kit…