Andy Felong has converted an old 1942 Crosley Radio into a Raspberry Pi Zero-powered media centre and then used an attached display to display the time and outside temperature (using the Weather Underground API). Read how he did it here.
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Which lavatory is free? Find out with the Raspberry Pi
Things you thought you’d never type! Chris Hoey and Daniel Benamy’s office has restroom (toilet) facilities spread out across the premises. As a result, it seems to be possible to spend much of the day hunting for a free cubicle.…
Automated game-playing solenoids highlights image processing with a Raspberry Pi
Kristian Lauszus took a course about image analysis in which students were asked to create a project to do the analysis. They were allowed to use OpenCV but none of the in-built filters – everything had to be done from scratch.…
Plasma CNC machine uses a Raspberry Pi as its brains
Will Baden from Nebraska has developed a plasma CNC machine (which is similar to a regular CNC router but uses plasma) to help him to build and make BIG things. The table controller is a GRBL shield attached to an…
Hand weaver gets a Raspberry Pi assisting loom
Fred Hoefler has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered motorised assistant for a hand weaver. The problem with hand weaving is that it is hard on the hands and arms and older weavers are often unable to continue their work due to…
Raspberry Pi used to monitor and brew the perfect cup of tea
James P is on a quest. A quest many of us have embarked upon without success. Not for the Holy Grail, no. Something much more important: The perfect cup of tea! He explains: (It is a project) designed to brew delicate…
Build a retro radio that talks in riddles with a Raspberry Pi
Designed to be part of an ‘escape room’, the Retro Radio Riddle is a retro radio set with it’s insides taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi and some custom circuitry. As the user twists the dial, they find…
Build your own Raspberry Pi laptop for around $150
Raspberry Pi laptops are somewhat of a holy grail for Pi users. You can, of course, just buy a Pi Top and build it from their kit. Or, alternatively you could go the DIY route as Instructables user Prosnow22 has done.…
Raspberry Pi Zero helps to build a better Karaoke machine
Frustrated with an inability to find a cost-effective karaoke machine with enough useful features to make it workable, Harry Gonzalez-Rivera decided to take a cheaper karaoke machine and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside. He added a USB audio card and wi-fi adapter,…
Physical sequencer merges Raspberry Pi, Arduino, a toy glockenspiel and LEGO to create something magical
Hong Kong-based modulogeek has taken his toddler’s toy glockenspiel and created an servo-motor based control for it. He has then fused this with a monome interface device which is controlled by the Raspberry Pi running the Python sequencer code. Together, he has…