TechCrunch’s John Biggs interviewed the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Eben Upton on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt in London. During the interview, Eben shows off the new 7-inch wide VGA capacitive touch panel DSI display and discusses other topics such as the…
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Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes!
Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there…
Wearable wrist radio with the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice project. A wearable Raspberry Pi powered by a LIPO running pifm and a Python script to play music. Not much detail on the page itself about the build, but he does list the components so you should…
Push notifications to your phone with a Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written a great tutorial which uses free (well, it’s ‘free to get started’, not sure if it’s continually free) online service Instapush to send push notifications to an Android/iOS app on your mobile phone. His example application (for…
Raspberry Pi powered full-size Dalek!
Ron Ostafichuk has taken a full-size Dalek model and used a Raspberry Pi to control it. It even plays the Doctor Who theme tune when it’s ready to go! You have to watch the video to see it in action…
Cotswold Raspberry Jam – 22nd November
Andy Baker and Andrew Oakley are organising a Raspberry Jam in Cheltenham. They’re running the first one on 22nd November from 1-4pm at the HESA offices on the Promenade. You can find out more about the Jam on their website here and…
An internet of things doorbell with the Raspberry Pi
India-based Arvind Ravulavaru has written a great tutorial that uses Node.js on a Raspberry Pi to create an internet-of-things doorbell. Read the tutorial here and see the video below.
Use an XBox 360 wireless controller with the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon wanted a controller for his robot and settled on an XBox 360 wireless controller. He used a £5 USB dongle for the initial communication and then wrote a script in pygame to interface to the controller. You can…
Raspberry Pi-powered pumpkin
It’s almost Halloween. Joy. Allen Heard has taken a pumpkin, a Pi and a Pibrella and mixed it with some other basic electronics to create a scary object to sit on his doorstep. Here’s a video of it and you…
The Pi Hut stock clearance sale – Bargains galore at up to 75% off!
In an effort to reduce the number of items he has to count when doing his annual stock-take (and to celebrate his second year in business), Jamie at The Pi Hut has decided to have a massive stock clearance sale. There…