Here’s a nice bit of silliness for you. A German crane manufacturer asked “hwhardsoft” to create a game that used the company’s crane controllers. So, that’s what they did – the created a Pong game using Python and then adapted…
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Raspberry Pi space invaders comes to Cambridge Makespace
The workshops run by HackLab UK are among the newest additions to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam and have so far also proven to be the most popular and successful. This Saturday (26th), HackLab will be at the Cambridge Makespace at…
Learn Minecraft coding on the Raspberry Pi with LavaTrap
Recently, Martin O’Hanlon attended PyCon UK. During the conference, he ran workshops using Minecraft Pi Edition during which participants could create a game called “LavaTrap”. The end result of the game is that you have to avoid the lava by…
Make your own set of piano stairs with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino
Back in November 2013, Bonnie Eisenman and her team used light sensors and torches to create a set of musical stairs at Princeton: The team have now written up the project as an Instructable so you can create your very own…
Pairing a bluetooth keyboard with the Raspberry Pi
Using a Bluetooth keyboard can be a pain in the backside. Fortunately, Tom Herbison has written a neat little tutorial on how to get it working. Read it here.
Make your own weather station with some sensors and a Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Servos and Raspberry Pis come to life in kinetic sculpture
Sam Blanchard, an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Virginia Tech, has developed SeeMore. SeeMore features 256 Raspberry Pis attached to servo arms. It works as an enormous parallel-processing computer but it is also articulated to show how it works as a…
Art installation in a French railway station uses a Raspberry Pi and over 16,000 LEDs
Fred Sapey-Triomphe and Yann Guidon were hired to liven up the entrance to a temporary railway station in Mons, France. The project is called ElectroSuper and is comprised of a 42m long ceiling screen made out of six sections containing 2800…
Nintendo Guitar Boy has a Raspberry Pi inside
FIbbef wanted to enter the 2015 Game Boy Classic build-off. He came up with the idea of meshing together a Game Boy and an electric guitar. A plexiglass shell is the main body and inside is a Raspberry Pi running…
Prototyping from down under – a review of the Wombat prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville, aka the Average Man, has just published his review of the Wombat Board. This board is ideal for prototyping and carries a full-sized breadboard, an analogue-to-digital converter and plenty of other bits and pieces. It was originally a…