Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+/B+. It’s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power…
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Internet Meme-themed Raspberry Pi Pinball machine
Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the…
Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella
Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used. She’s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. All the…
Control a telescope with Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi
Tom Sherlock from Wolfram Research has written an extensive guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about his work which uses a Pi camera module to take astronomical photographs while the Pi itself controls the position of the telescope…
Digital photo frame with a Raspberry Pi
Greg Betz has been building a digital photo frame powered by a Raspberry Pi which accepts changes remotely. You can read all about his build on his blog.
Building a Raspberry Pi B+ into a vintage Apple extended keyboard
Apologies for the lack of posts over the past few days. Pi Wars took up all my energy and I’ve been recovering since then! Plus, I’ve had a few nights out on the trot which means I’ve been unable to get…
Christmas Tree kit for the Raspberry Pi
Tom Stratford backed Andrew Gale’s recent Kickstarter for a GPIO Christmas Tree. He’s now got it and he’s posted up a short build review over on his blog. Read it here. If you’d like to get hold of your own…
Create a Raspberry Pi cluster – video series
Rasim Muratovic has started a YouTube series on the creation of a Raspberry Pi B+ cluster. In this part, he’s taking care of the physical set-up and plugging the Pis into a router. Future parts will deal with installing Raspbian on…
Build your own mobile phone with the Raspberry Pi
Adafruit have published a new tutorial written by David Hunt who created the PiPhone, a Raspberry Pi-powered mobile, or cell, phone. It uses a lot of components, all available via Adafruit, but it’s a stunning piece of hacking. Read more…
Raspberry Pi transceiver adapter shown at Chelmsford
Peter Onion recently attended the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Skills Night and showed off his Raspberry Pi Panadapter. I’ve seen it in person at Potton Pi and Pints and I have to say it’s brilliant. You set the equipment up…