Canadian Bell Eapen has decided to leverage the inherent cheapness of the Raspberry Pi and the coolness of Bluetooth beacons to set-up a tracking facility for patients in mental health institutions. It’s just an idea at the moment, but he…
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Raspberry Pi internet monitor boasts a biiiiiiig light tower
Instructables user talk2bruce has created a truly great tutorial. In it, he shows you how to build a highly visible internet monitor. The Raspberry Pi is used to ping a site on the internet and then, based on the response, switches the…
Raspberry Pi controlled BBQ for briskets!
Wired magazine have published an article about a group of Harvard engineering students who have built themselves a brisket smoker. The students embarked on the project as part of one of their engineering modules at the University and have come…
BB-8 droid comes to life with the aid of a Raspberry Pi
A team from Sparkfun have created a full-sized prototype replica of the BB-8 droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Inside the sphere is a Raspberry Pi which provides the ‘brains’ for the robot. The team, comprised of Pamela Cortez,…
Levitating chickens with a Raspberry Pi
Darren Steele came back after a holiday to find that a fox had eaten all his chickens. Undeterred, Darren bought more chickens and decided to come up with a way to protect them from the predators. His solution? Hook a…
Using a Raspberry Pi 2 to make MIDI music
JosephEarnest has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input/output device. The software is written in Python and cython and is available here. He’s made…
Monitor your beer fridge with a Raspberry Pi
The guys over at Initial State have written a comprehensive tutorial to create an Internet of Things Beer Fridge! By using a Raspberry Pi, some sensors and a Wii balance board (!), the software is able to determine how many…
Super-sized Gameboy runs from a Raspberry Pi
Brussels-based Ilhan Ünal (Raz) was inspired to create a giant replica of Nintendo’s GameBoy. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and an old desktop monitor to do it and installed Retropie to drive the games. The case is made out of MDF…
Theatre intermission sound controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Scott Wegner operates the sound and lights system for his local auditorium in rural Minnesota. This often involves playing music into the foyer area to warm the audience up before the enter, as well as making announcements about when the show…
Vintage radio brought to life with a Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon is usually to be seen hacking around with Minecraft Pi. This time, however, he’s taken one of his wife’s collection of broken useless rubbish vintage radios, a Raspberry Pi, an IQaudIO audio board and amplifier and some other small parts and given it…