Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8×8 Neopixel matrix on the…
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Wooden Game Boy Advance, Raspberry Pi-style
Ryan Bates decided he wanted a retro gaming machine. Instead of going the usual route of taking an old console or handheld, he wanted to go bigger… much bigger. So started his build of a wooden Game Boy Advance – 300%…
Replacing a Chevy head unit with a Raspberry Pi
Daniel Stinebaugh wanted to replace his Chevy’s failing head unit with a Raspberry Pi. So, he ripped the old one out and fitted the Pi and a wireless router in it’s place. The Pi runs Volumio and he’s also using the DAC+ HAT from…
DIY laser harp powered by a Raspberry Pi and RasPiO Duino
Not much detail on this, but it’s way too cool not to share. David Pride announced on Twitter that he has created a DIY laser harp. He uses a 50mW laser with a stepper motor to create beams of light…
Tooth fairy conduit system with a vacuum and a Raspberry Pi
Jeff Highsmith, who previously created the wonderful Mission Control Desk and bedroom Apollo Mission has been hard at work again. This time he’s installed a hatch in each of his children’s bedrooms which give access to a pair of tubes into which they can put…
Raspberry Pi alarm clock & music player surrounded by black walnut and maple
Peter Roca has created a piece of bedside furniture and embedded a Raspberry Pi into it. He calls it Bedbot, a Daytime Initialization Assistant. This beautifully constructed table, made out of black walnut and maple, acts as an alarm clock and…
Plotter made from two optical drives and a Raspberry Pi
Norbert Heinz cannibalised two optical drives for their parts, then hooked them up to a Raspberry Pi via a couple of H-bridge chips before adding an arm with a pen. This gave him a drawing mechanism that could be programmatically…
PatternCraft – build with punchcards in Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
Gemma May Latham has been looking into ways that Minecraft can be used to explore artistic uses of textiles. With help from David Whale (co-author of the excellent book Adventures in Minecraft) she built a punchcard reader that is powered by an…
Bare metal game of DOOM on the Raspberry Pi
Four students from Imperial College, London (Bálint Rikker, Csongor Kiss, Sicong Li and Toby Shaw) teamed up for their first year final project. The project aimed to re-write classic shooter DOOM to the Raspberry Pi via 9800 lines of ‘bare metal’ code (i.e. ARM assembly code and…
Beginners electronics project on the Raspberry Pi needs the correct code
California-based 13-year old Nicholas Harris (aka ScarabCoder) has created a great electronics project (okay, it was some time ago but I only just spotted it!). He’s taken some LEDs and buttons to create a ‘keypad’ of sorts and then written some…