I’m trying something new out – a sort-of digest of Pi-related things I’ve found this week. Let me know what you think of the idea of these combined posts in the comments! 🙂 Air quality lamp Guillaume Slizewicz has created…
Category: Raspberry Pi Zero
Find the current location of the International Space Station and display it on an e-ink display with a Raspberry Pi
Graeme over at Raspberry Connect has created this nifty little project using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a small e-ink display from SeeedStudio. Using an open API, he grabs the position of the ISS and then plots it as…
Creating a Raspberry Pi Zero touchscreen handheld – NODE’s new version of the Zero Terminal
For a while, NODE has tried to create the most portable Raspberry Pi Zero mini computer. He’s one step closer with his latest creation – version 3 of the Zero Terminal. It has the following features: A 5.5″ AMOLED touchscreen.…
LEGO Apollo Lunar Lander hooked up to a Raspberry Pi is a thing of beauty
Spotted this one in amongst all the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Apollo Moon Landings. Richard Hayler purchased the LEGO Lunar Lander set and built it up. He decided that he wanted a permanent enclosure to display it in and…
Hacking a cute, six-legged plastic toy with a Raspberry Pi Zero
David Pride has taken a Tobbie robot toy and hacked it using some 3D-printed extra parts and a Raspberry Pi Zero. He’s used a ZeroBorg from PiBorg as the motor controller and then 3D-printed a replacement head to house the Raspberry…
Make your own low-cost 3D-printed robot controlled by a Raspberry Pi Zero W
Nik Ivanov has released plans for a low-cost, 3D-printable rover called Watney which features cheap, yellow Chinese DC motors inside a pretty lovely 3D-printed chassis and case. It’s all run off a Raspberry Pi Zero W and you can download…
Raspberry Pi-powered, Google Calendar-aware clock with added NeoPixels
Sam VanHook has created this lovely Google Calendar-aware clock out of some birch plywood and then added diffused Neopixels. These Neopixels are lit up by a Raspberry Pi Zero W when Sam has appointments in his Google Calendar. He’s used…
German students create a Raspberry Pi-powered camera device which records those moments you miss
Every minute, we lose an estimated six seconds of vision when we blink, according to research at the University of Tokyo. To combat this “problem”, students at the University of Bremen have developed a wearable camera that takes video footage when you blink.…
Self-contained lighting effects using a Raspberry Pi Zero and Go
A programming language called ‘Go’ is pretty big news nowadays. Personally, it scares the heck out of me. Sooooo complicated, but what do I know? Some people like it. Tom Mitchell has taken Go and written a great script to communicate…
Custom PCB ISA card uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W to provide a server to a PC/XT
Scott Baker has a vintage computing habit! For his latest project, he wanted to solve the issue of transferring files between a PC/XT and a modern desktop. To do this, he created an ISA card PCB (seen above) which takes…