Last month, I covered Neil Matthews’ e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi. If you missed out on that Kickstarter, there’s another one that has been running for a little while and now has just 10 days left. This HAT has…
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Super-sized Gameboy runs from a Raspberry Pi
Brussels-based Ilhan Ünal (Raz) was inspired to create a giant replica of Nintendo’s GameBoy. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and an old desktop monitor to do it and installed Retropie to drive the games. The case is made out of MDF…
Remote-controlled Raspberry Pi spybot
Zach Igielman has taken a Pi2Go robot kit from 4tronix plus the pan-and-tilt mechanism for the camera, and created a robot. He’s then used SSH to remote-control it and a web interface to see the video camera stream. Here’s the…
Linux Voice issue 6 now available for download – features Raspberry Pi projects
Linux Voice, in keeping with its promise to release its content for free after 9 months, has just published the PDFs for Issue 6 online. For Raspberry Pi owners, there are examples of several projects including: International Space Station detector.…
Art installation triptych with three Raspberry Pis
Film-maker Natasha Maidoff approached her friend Thomas to her create a video triptych at the 2015 Venice Art Walk. The triptych is made out of three Raspberry Pis playing three separate, but synchronised, videos. This is accomplished by networking the three Pis together…
Theatre intermission sound controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Scott Wegner operates the sound and lights system for his local auditorium in rural Minnesota. This often involves playing music into the foyer area to warm the audience up before the enter, as well as making announcements about when the show…
Support Raspberry Pi robotics by voting for Dawn Robotics
Alan Broun at Dawn Robotics is currently pitching for a £20,000 fund from Jisc to develop their Raspberry Pi robotics kit. The kit comes with a chassis, motors, wheels, a driver board, a servo-controlled Pi camera and all the fixings necessary…
Interactive Astro Pi model with Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon is, basically, a Jedi when it comes to Minecraft Pi. He has now combined his work on the Astro Pi with a model of that same board within the Minecraft world. You can do everything with the model, from…
Run Java EE apps on the Raspberry Pi with Payara Micro
Payara Micro is a fantastic little Java server that requires no installation to get it running. All you need is Java installed on your Pi (which is default on Raspbian) and a simple command and you’re up and running. It’s…
Remote control options for your Raspberry Pi media centre
Richard Saville has done a great round-up/review of the various options available to you when you’re using the Pi as a media centre. He covers various options including the Yatse phone app, a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo device and a FLIRC IR…