Tobias Kuhn has taken a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino Mega and 3 DC motors and built what he calls the “DeltaPicker”. It is a robot which operates on multiple axis and uses the Pi to do image capturing and processing…
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Set-up Raspberry Pi Zero OTG without a keyboard, mouse, screen etc
Andrew Mulholland previously posted about using the Raspberry Pi Zero over USB OTG, i.e. programming a Zero over just a USB cable from another machine such as a laptop. Thanks to some improvements to the Raspbian operating system and a…
Official Raspberry Pi touchscreen case reviews by the Average Man
A little while back, in March, I did a round-up of the various case options available for the official Raspberry Pi touchscreen. It wasn’t quite a comprehensive list, but now along has come Richard (Average Man) Saville with his round-up of the options.…
Use an analog to digital converter to get analog sensor readings on the Raspberry Pi
Gus over at PiMyLifeUp has done a great tutorial on using the “famous” MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter chip to read values from a light-dependent resistor. He goes through wiring it up and programming it using the spidev Python library. I prefer the…
Cambridge start-up uses Raspberry Pi for low-cost water quality scanner
Waterscope, a Cambridge start-up company, has developed a low-cost, 3D-printed water quality scanner based around a Raspberry Pi and a microscope. Alex Patto, Richard Bowman, Nalin Patel and Tianheng Xhao met on iTeams, a programme started at Cambridge University which aims to help…
New Raspberry Pi Zero out today – with camera support!
The Raspberry Pi Zero has been notoriously difficult to get hold of. Today, new stocks have arrived and they contain a new feature that will be sure to get people excited. That new feature is a camera port: It enables the…
Create an instant camera with a thermal printer and a Raspberry Pi
Phillip Burgess has developed an instant camera using a Raspberry Pi, with camera module, plus a mini thermal printer from Adafruit (if you’re in the UK, take a look for the same product at Makersify). It looks like a nice…
Body movements create music with the help of a Raspberry Pi and Arduino sensors
Calvin Cherry, an electrical engineer graduate of University of Wisconsin – Madison, has created a new musical instrument called Music from Motion which adds layers of instrumental samples as he moves different parts of his body. Stop sniggering at the back!…
Build a rugged off-road Raspberry Pi robot
Ben Martin has used a Mantis robot kit (which is the main chassis, motors and wheels) and added a RoboClaw motor controller board, together with a Raspberry Pi control board to create a fantastic off-road robot. He has written it…
Wizard Chess with the Raspberry Pi
Bethanie Fentiman is an 18 year old who, faced with delivering some A-level coursework, thought that she’d take inspiration from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorceror’s Stone and create a real-life version of Wizard Chess! First of all, she used an Instructable to…