Supported by the Mexican government, Newcastle, England-based artist Diego Trujillo Pisanty has created a device that prints out documents and then immediately destroys them in a flash of flame and smoke. It was inspired by what happened with Edward Snowden and…
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Wearable wrist radio with the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice project. A wearable Raspberry Pi powered by a LIPO running pifm and a Python script to play music. Not much detail on the page itself about the build, but he does list the components so you should…
Raspberry Pi powered full-size Dalek!
Ron Ostafichuk has taken a full-size Dalek model and used a Raspberry Pi to control it. It even plays the Doctor Who theme tune when it’s ready to go! You have to watch the video to see it in action…
Raspberry Pi-powered pumpkin
It’s almost Halloween. Joy. Allen Heard has taken a pumpkin, a Pi and a Pibrella and mixed it with some other basic electronics to create a scary object to sit on his doorstep. Here’s a video of it and you…
Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR scanner
Adafruit has just published a great way to look at the radio signals floating around you. It uses software-defined radio (SDR) to do it via a fairly cheap dongle that plugs into one of your Pi’s USB ports. The radio waves…
Ethical hacking experiment uses Raspberry Pi
In June, European law enforcement agency Europol, backed by German ethical hacking company SySS, conducted an experiment in London. The experiment involved setting a mobile Raspberry Pi unit up as a wifi hotspot to allow connected devices access to the internet. It…
Raspberry Pi irrigation controller
Jennifer Fox has constructed an irrigation controller using a Pi, a relay and a solenoid irrigation valve (amongst other bits and pieces). She’s posted the whole thing up on Instructables as a tutorial and also covered creating a capacitive soil…
Sinclair TV LCD conversion with a Raspberry Pi
Nathan Chantrell has taken an old, non-functioning Sinclair TV and given it new life with a Raspberry Pi. He had to de-solder some of the components on the Pi to make it fit and used custom kernel modules to get the…
ramanPi – Raspberry Pi controlled spectrometer
flatCat has developed an enormous project that uses a Raspberry Pi to control a spectrometer. Here’s what he says about what the machine does: Raman spectroscopy is something very cool to behold, and imagine.. The idea that shining a light on…
3D printer actually controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Several people have claimed to have a 3D printer ‘powered by a Raspberry Pi’. It has always turned out that this meant that there was a Pi in there somewhere, but actually it was being controlled by something else and…