Cambridgeshire-based PiBorg have just announced a new product. Say hello to the Diddyborg – Doodleborg’s younger brother. Here’s a picture of Doodleborg for comparison: Here are some of the specs of the Diddyborg from their site. Chassis: Robust Laser cut…
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Bringing a teletype back to life with the Raspberry Pi
Robert Coggeshall (Sudo Bob) has taken a 50-year old teletype unit and resurrected it, thanks to the Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components. You can read about the build and find out more here.
Raspberry Pi controlled Christmas tree light show
Instructables user Osprey22 has written a piece of Python which acts as a sequencer based on an imported MP3 file to drive sets of Christmas tree lights. He’s written the whole thing up as a tutorial, so head on over…
Brew your coffee the renewable way with a Raspberry Pi
A group of University of Lancaster researchers have used a Raspberry Pi to only allow a kettle to be boiled when the University’s wind turbine is producing power. Dr. Will Simm, Dr. Peter Newman, Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario and Dr. Stephen…
Render photographs from the Raspberry Pi camera into Minecraft
Ferran Fabregas has worked out a way to take images and render them in Minecraft Pi Edition. He’s now extended that idea and created a Python script using picamera to take a photo and then send it into Minecraft. Brilliant…
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet
Instructables user diygizmo has posted a great tutorial to help you build the arcade cabinet in the picture above. Check it out here.
Time-lapse stargazing with the Raspberry Pi
Now this is something I’ve been wanting to try myself for ages. Jippo has created some software which captures images from the Raspberry Pi camera module in a time-lapse to enable you to get great night-time pictures of moving objects such…
Get a Christmas tree for your Raspberry Pi and learn Charlieplexing!
Andrew Gale from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire did some great little robot soldering kits for the CamJam in September. He’s now branching out (ha-ha… oh, wait… that joke doesn’t make sense yet) into Christmas trees (see… branching out? branch… Never mind). He’s…
Counting bugs with a Raspberry Pi
Sergey Sharybin and Martijn Berger from Blender presented this awesome bug-o-meter at the recent Blender Conference. It uses a Raspberry Pi and nixie tubes to display the number of bugs being worked on currently. Read more here.
Rawwwwrgghh! Hacking dinosaurs with the Raspberry Pi
Dr Lucy Rogers got together with a group of makers at Blackgang Chine, a Theme Park on the Isle of Wight, to take control of their animatronic dinosaurs. She and some helpers first of all taught the makers and staff how…