Dmitry Morozov is a Russian “media artist” and has created this wonderful piece of artwork. Using a custom laser set-up, he scans the discs of pyrite, produced on this planet seemingly only in Illinois, and then sends the data through…
Category: Music
Make your own set of piano stairs with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino
Back in November 2013, Bonnie Eisenman and her team used light sensors and torches to create a set of musical stairs at Princeton: The team have now written up the project as an Instructable so you can create your very own…
Nintendo Guitar Boy has a Raspberry Pi inside
FIbbef wanted to enter the 2015 Game Boy Classic build-off. He came up with the idea of meshing together a Game Boy and an electric guitar. A plexiglass shell is the main body and inside is a Raspberry Pi running…
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,…
PianoHAT for the Raspberry Pi – video demo
A few people asked me to do this, so I thought why not? I recently posted a review of the Pimoroni PianoHAT and I asked if people wanted to see a video demo of the board and it’s capabilities. Well, here you…
PianoHAT for the Raspberry Pi – a review
Occasionally, I get sent things in the post to review. Sometimes I buy a product just because I think it looks cool. This is one of the latter type. Update: I have added a video demo here. Introduction The original board,…
Pi Piano HATs start to be delivered – a first look
Sandy Macdonald must have ordered a Pi Piano HAT from Pimoroni on virtually the day it was released and has now written up his thoughts about the board, stepping through the example programs and detailing a way to get the…
PiPiano follow-up HAT for the Raspberry Pi launched
Pimoroni have announced the launch of their latest product, a new HAT which follows on from the excellent work of Zach Igielman and his PiPiano board. The board comes fully-assembled and uses 13 capacitive touch pads instead of physical buttons.…
DIY laser harp powered by a Raspberry Pi and RasPiO Duino
Not much detail on this, but it’s way too cool not to share. David Pride announced on Twitter that he has created a DIY laser harp. He uses a 50mW laser with a stepper motor to create beams of light…
Reinvigorating a vintage radio with a Raspberry Pi
Gordon from IQAudIO has done a bang-up job at restoring his late grandmother’s vintage Roberts radio. He’s used one of IQAudIO’s own boards, the Pi-DigiAMP+ and a pair of small speakers to output music from a variety of online sources via Shairport Sync software…