This is one of my personal ‘Holy Grails’ – an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle containing a Pi. Although it’s not controlled by the Pi, I think this one counts! Tim Jagenberg and his son are currently attending the Maker Faire in Trondheim…
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New visual programming environment for the Raspberry Pi – Wyliodrin
For those of you who don’t like to write actual text-based code, and instead prefer a visual programming environment, there are only a few options out there, most notably Scratch and NodeRED. There is a new player in the arena…
Monitor your kegs with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a cool project for those of you who like a drink or two. It assumes that you’ve got some kegs (or barrels) of beer (or other drink). The software (known as Kegberry) can either just list your kegs or,…
Fisher Price talking chatter smartphone with built-in Raspberry Pi
Grant Gibson has taken a child’s toy and turned it into a talking internet-enabled device. The main body is made out of a Fisher Price Chatterphone, made popular by Toy Story 3, and inside is the Pi and some basic electronics…
Play PacMan on a Raspberry Pi while waiting for the bus
Norwegian makers Norwegian Creations, HK-reklame and Trondheim Makers wanted to advertise the Trondheim Maker Faire. They hit upon the idea of installing a Raspberry Pi and a screen inside bus stops so that people could play PacMan while they waited.…
Raspberry Pi is the brains behind this autonomous boat
A Finland-based team is currently building an autonomous boat called Leviathan and at the heart of it is a Raspberry Pi. You can read more about the boat here and read about their exploits on their blog.
Run a NodeJS server on the Raspberry Pi
Matt from gauntface.com has done a great tutorial on getting NodeJS working on the Pi. If you’ve ever wanted to dip your toes into this great framework, this is a good starting point. Check it out here.
Converting and Resizing Images Using Python
Trevor Appleton has released his script that will take a folder of images, convert any images it finds into JPG, delete the original and then resize the new image to a fixed width. This is something you could quite easily…
Sonic Pi: Live & Coding Summer School
Ben & Phil from Juneau Projects have written a guest post on the Foundation blog about the recent Cambridge-based summer school which used Sonic Pi to create a “live coding” concert, amongst other things! You can read the post here.…
Create a motion sensor fortune teller with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Julian has blogged this nice little project which has you creating a fortune teller which speaks to ‘guests’ whenever it detects movement. Creepy but fun. Read about it here.