Ben Nuttall over at Raspberry Pi has announced the release of GPIO Zero 1.5. This is a significant release and includes several enhancements. Improvements to the DistanceSensor class giving more accurate and reliable readings. Improvements to the source/value functionality meaning…
Andy Warburton has taken his initial concept of a Raspberry Pi-powered nightlight and re-invented it using an ESP8266 board. The ESP8266 (which you can find on, for example, the Wemos D1 mini) is a marvellous chip which is Arduino IDE-compatible…
This is a nice little project that I wrote the code for a couple of Sundays ago. It uses the Pimoroni Mote (full kit) to appear as fireworks and then uses Pygame to play the sound of fireworks as each Mote…
Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer has taken a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino-compatible board and written some PHP and Python code to interface to hack a Brother KM950i knitting machine. The resultant set-up allows her to send an image to the…
Michael Darby has taken a 5 inch LCD screen, a holographic pyramid, a Skywriter HAT and, of course, a Raspberry Pi and created a Holo Cube. By moving his hand over the top of the Skywriter HAT, he can manipulate…
Ben Brabyn wanted to encourage his friends and family to smile a bit more and so he came up with the solution: marshmellows! A Raspberry Pi and a webcam are used to detect a smiling face and then a hacked…
Kris Hauser is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has developed an algorithm that effectively stops a bipedal robot from falling over by putting…
Maker Medinc has taken a Raspberry Pi, a couple of Tiny Lidar sensors and a 32×32 LED matrix and created a practical parking assistant. The two sensors are attached to the car at the back and side and then wired through…
Al Bencomo has created this wonderful 3D-printed robot that can overcome obstacles by changing the shape of its wheels. FRILLER (FRILL Explorer Robot) uses a Raspberry Pi 3 with Android Things OS to control motors connected via an Adafruit Motor HAT.…
Christian Haschek from Austria has developed a system to identify illegally uploaded pornographic images. Following the upload of a child sexual abuse image to his image hosting platform, Pictshare, Haschek naturally contacted the police who told him to print it…
