Brian Corteil is one of this year’s Pi Wars competitors. One of the more interesting challenges he, and the other teams, face is “Proximity Alert”. This challenge involves approaching a wall and stopping as close as possible to it without…
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Public upright looping piano with a Raspberry Pi
Taking inspiration from their home town’s surfeit of public “street pianos”, Mike & Sean wanted to create something special. They came up with a piano that would record what was played on it and then allow the player, or even another player,…
Kano launches new screen for the Raspberry Pi / @TeamKano
Love them or hate them, you cannot deny that Kano has done a lot for the popularity of the Raspberry Pi. With the idea that you can “build a computer yourself”, good marketing, attractive packaging and well-written, well-presented resources, they have…
Turning a fridge into a retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi
Daniel d’Entremont has done something faintly ridiculous. He’s taken a small, working fridge, cut a hole for a screen and some more holes for buttons and turned it into a Game Boy-lookalike console. He admits that it’s all a bit…
Raspberry Pi games emulator inside a SNES case
“severdhed” bought an old SNES for $10 and refurbished it with lots of cleaning and a new paint job. He then added a Pi and rigged the original buttons up to the GPIO. He added RetroPie to give the full…
Make a Magic 8 Ball with the Raspberry Pi and the SenseHAT
Carrie Anne Philbin has written a lovely new resource for the Raspberry Pi Learning Resources website. It uses the recently-launched SenseHAT to create a Magic 8 Ball. You ask it a question and then shake the whole Pi and HAT (triggering…
Expanding Cambridgeshire robotics company seeks new engineers
PiBorg, who make the fantastic Raspberry Pi-powered Diddyborg and high-end robot controller boards, are looking to expand into new premises soon. As part of this, they are looking to grow their workforce. So, all you engineers listen up! This is a…
Skycademy write-up shows how exciting it was!
Lots of us followed the exploits of the recent Skycademy on Twitter and on the HabHub tracking website. Although we were basically following icons on a Google Map, I found it enthralling and it was great to hear the constant…
Investigate the Minecraft API on the Raspberry Pi with NodeRED
Boris Adryan is running a workshop at CamJam on 12th September and, ahead of this, he’s published his learning material. The workshop is all about how you can use Javascript and NodeRED to interact with the Minecraft Pi Edition API.…
The Pi Podcast covers Pi Wars!
A couple of weekends ago, Tim Richardson and I (having recovered from the local chilli festival) were interviewed by the guys over at The Pi Podcast about Pi Wars. It was a great experience and I’m really happy these people in…