Carl Monk has taken a model A+ and a Unicorn HAT add-on board and created a clock which tells the time in plain English. It does this by lighting up the Neopixels on the HAT in a specific pattern to…
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Raspberry Pi Lunchbox Arcade machine
This is quite an old blog entry, but not one I think I’ve covered before. Stiggy has taken a plastic lunchbox, some arcade controls and created an arcade machine! The arcade controls are linked to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO and he’s…
A Raspberry Pi VAX cluster
Following on from a previous post in which he showed how the Pi can be used to emulate a mainframe, Andrew Back has now moved on to describing how to turn a couple of Pis into a VAX cluster. He…
Raspberry Pi arcade game emulator in an Atari Lynx
David Hooker has taken an old Atari Lynx handheld computer, ripped the guts out of it and fitted a Raspberry Pi along with a bunch of other electronic components (an amplifier for instance). He’s installed Shea Silverman’s PiPlay and used one of…
New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+
Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+/B+. It’s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power…
A Raspberry Pi remote controlled police van
“seeourfamilytravels” (actual name unknown) has taken a Pi and shrouded it in a chassis that looks like an old-fashioned police van. Details of his build are here and you can view a video of the project above.
A Raspberry Pi MP3 player inside a rotary phone
“makerblog” has written an Instructable that takes you through the process of embedding a Raspberry Pi into an old rotary phone. Beginning by stripping the innards out of the phone before mounting the Pi inside, he has supplied all the…
Raspberry Pi embraced by Australian school
Scots PGC College in Queensland, Australia has taken the Raspberry Pi into its curriculum and is now using it in class to teach kids how to program using online platform Codecademy. Read more here.
Review of the Year 2014
To celebrate the coming of the New Year, I decided to look back over the last twelve months and see what’s happened in the world of Raspberry Pi. You can find my Review of the Year on this page. (I’ve…
BBC Radio on the Raspberry Pi controlled with a tiny web server
Stephen Phillips wanted to listen to BBC radio stations on his Raspberry Pi, but control which station via his mobile phone. So, he’s created a small web server and some interface code to enable him to do it. He’s open-sourced…