Daniel Bull has written up some excellent instructions for wiring up and soldering an Adafruit PowerBoost LiPo charger onto a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a Zero for this initial hack but you should be able to use any Raspberry Pi (the lower-powered…
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Looking inside a standard “yellow motor”
Richard (aka Average Man) used to like taking things apart when he was a youngster. This tendency has not diminished with age and he’s turned his attention to one of those standard “yellow motors”, such as those that come with…
Extreme teardown of the Raspberry Pi Zero
The guys over at electronupdate have taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and stripped various components off it, put it under a microscope and tried to find out what makes it tick. Here’s the video:
Helicarrier bed uses Raspberry Pi as a command centre
Andy wanted to do something special for his son. So, he took his inspiration from Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. and built a raised bed with a den underneath. He then filled the den with all manner of tech and Marvel stuff and then…
Do you wanna build a snowman? You can with this great add-on for the Raspberry Pi
Ryan Walmsley of Ryanteck has just launched a new crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. This one is a soldering kit in the shape of a snowman! Very cute. Earlybirds (there are still some left) are £5 + shipping, with the price then rising…
Delorean Time Circuit and Flux Capacitor with the Raspberry Pi
Happy Back to the Future Day! In honour of this momentous occasion, when we can expect Marty McFly to travel from the past and appear somewhere above Hill Valley, California, I’ve decided to re-post this excellent project from Carl Monk. In his extensive…
Tracking the position of Boston’s underground trains on the wall using a Raspberry Pi
MIT student Ian Reynolds has a fascination with the Greater Boston transit system, and more specifically MBTA’s T subway. So, he brought together a bunch of LED strips, an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi to create some wall art for his bedroom…
Art installation in a French railway station uses a Raspberry Pi and over 16,000 LEDs
Fred Sapey-Triomphe and Yann Guidon were hired to liven up the entrance to a temporary railway station in Mons, France. The project is called ElectroSuper and is comprised of a 42m long ceiling screen made out of six sections containing 2800…
Rubik’s Cube solver to replace valuable Raspberry Pi employees
Sorry, that was a bit click-baity wasn’t it! 🙂 Today, the BBC are running a feature on robots and how they are expected, or at least strongly suggested, to replace certain careers. Here’s one of the articles they are running.…
Telecom Time Machine with a Raspberry Pi
The people over at Toymaker Television always like to start their projects by ‘building a time machine’. It’s kind of a broad statement, so we’ll ignore it for now. What they’ve done is to re-create an old retro computer with a Raspberry…