Sheffield-based Pimoroni, purveyors of all things Pi (including a very nifty stand for the new DSI Display) have just started a new web series, Bilge Tank. Taking place in their newly-constructed studio, the series promises to bring news, product demos…
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Roll-coins-down-a-ramp game with NodeRED and Raspberry Pi
9 year old LDR and his dad have written up their project. In this game, you roll coins down a ramp into a box that contains ‘islands’ of aluminium foil attempting to bridge the gaps across to the other side.…
Raspberry Pi games emulator inside a SNES case
“severdhed” bought an old SNES for $10 and refurbished it with lots of cleaning and a new paint job. He then added a Pi and rigged the original buttons up to the GPIO. He added RetroPie to give the full…
Walnut-cased Raspberry Pi model A+ gaming consoles
Love Hulten is a Swedish designer and craftsman who loves to fuse together technology and more traditional materials. He’s just unveiled his latest two creations. The first is called the PE358 and is inspired by the Game Boy Advance. It…
WittyPi for the Raspberry Pi – video review
Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has just published a video review of the Witty Pi power management and real-time clock board by UUGear. This £10 board gives you a real-time clock so that your Pi always has the correct time, even…
Wine barrel becomes an arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi
Adelaide-based Matt Shaw wanted an arcade machine of his very own. His solution? Take an old wine barrel and adapt it for the purpose. He used a work-surplus monitor as a display and then cut a form-fitting fibreboard box to…
Developer seeks funding for remotely operated underwater vehicle powered by a Raspberry Pi
Sam Groome is an apprentice at an ROV manufacturer and a college student finishing his HND in electrical/electronic engineering. He has a dream: an underwater Raspberry Pi-powered remote controlled vehicle. The ROV is tethered to the surface via a cable and signals are…
Hacking from the sky with a Raspberry Pi
Hey! That rhymes! *ahem* At the DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas, David Jordan of Aerial Assault showed off his drone that can remotely attack computer networks. It does this courtesy of an on-board Raspberry Pi running Kali Linux. It first…
PiPiano follow-up HAT for the Raspberry Pi launched
Pimoroni have announced the launch of their latest product, a new HAT which follows on from the excellent work of Zach Igielman and his PiPiano board. The board comes fully-assembled and uses 13 capacitive touch pads instead of physical buttons.…
How to build your own ‘future home’ model with the Raspberry Pi
Earlier this year, PubNub posted about their LEGO future home which had a variety of sensors, LEDs and motors attached. They have now started to write tutorials based around the project so that you can build your very own, using…