Richard Hayler (who has previously done very many cool things with a Pi) has developed his own “kite mapping” rig using a Raspberry Pi. He’s taken a model A+, a camera module, an Xtrinsic Sensor board and a ProtoCam prototyping board, meshed…
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Automated waste sorter uses a Raspberry Pi
Harrison Bradley, Jeff Bertel and Marc Welsh studied on the Advanced Mechatronics course at Georgia Tech. They’ve created an apparatus which takes in a piece of waste and then automatically sorts it depending on what the object is identified as: cans…
Custom-built word processing box powered by Raspberry Pi
Portland-based Giando Sigurani has created a portable word processing system from a Raspberry Pi 2 and a few other bits including a full-size keyboard and track pad, SD card reader and exposed USB port. The whole thing has been built…
Raspberry Pi iBeacon system for bypassing theme park queues
Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…
Guitar powered by a Raspberry Pi and Arduino plays network logs
Ben Reardon saw a robot playing a classical guitar in 1988 at a World Expo in Brisbane, Australia. It stuck in his mind and he has now done his own version using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and some servos…
Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…
Make your own Raspberry Pi powered mobile phone
Tyler Spadgenske has written an Instructable that shows you how to create your own mobile phone using a Raspberry Pi A+. He 3D-prints a case for the phone and then fills that case with components including an Adafruit FONA board (which…
Raspberry Pi-powered t-shirt printing from Rapanui
Fashion brand Rapanui, who power their factory by wind turbines, have set-up a Twitter account which you can tweet in order to get a t-shirt made. You simply tweet a picture to @tshirtplease and a Raspberry Pi, which has monitored the Twitter account,…
Automated Raspberry Pi squirrel feeder
Blogger ‘ulfster’ decided he wanted to be kind to the wildlife in his garden. He has some squirrels that come into the garden but they were a little skittish around him when he tried to feed them. So, he struck…
Raspberry Pi Music Synthesis – multi-synth sequencing
Phil Atkin has been hard at work developing synth systems with the Pi. Here is a video (above) of his latest effort. I’ll let him explain: A first-generation Raspberry Pi (Model B+ overclocked to 950MHz) runs a sequencing application which drives…