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Customizing your Raspbmc Media Centre - Have it Your Way!

Gough Lui

Thanks to element14's RoadTest program, I managed to get my hands upon a Raspbmc bundle. I can definitely say that it has bought much smiles to my face, as I appreciate the value and flexibility afforded by the open source media centre software XBMC....
- 12 Jan 2014
Valentine's Pi - Project Start

zengirl2

The holidays are over and it's time to have some maker fun! Get ready for my next adventure starring Raspberry Pi.... www.youtube.com/watch
- 11 Jan 2014
New Year’s Party Pack - To entertain the masses or just babysit the kids - Concluding Remarks

Brett.Wildermoth

Original Goal:The original goal I set out to achieve was to find a media center application that would keep my kids and those of my new years party guests entertained. The application need to be intuitive, stable and engaging.In order to achieve this...
- 7 Jan 2014
New Year’s Party Pack - To entertain the masses or just babysit the kids - XBMC: RaspBMC, OpenElec and GeeXBox go head to head

Brett.Wildermoth

Before I beginI realize that some people may feel very passionate about a certain brand of XBMC on their Raspberry Pi, and I would like to make it very clear that what is written here is my own personal experience with these Operating Systems (OSes)....
- 7 Jan 2014
Raspberry Pi Santa Catcher with Pi NoIR and PiFace CAD

fvan

Project Description Installation Hardware Software Raspbian WiPi Pi Camera PiFace CAD Implementation Detection Activation Enable/Disable motion picture and movie generation LCD message Script Remote (de-)activation Demo Notification We...
- 6 Jan 2014
New Year’s Party Pack - To entertain the masses or just babysit the kids - RasPlex

Brett.Wildermoth

BackgroundThe Plex project has been around almost as long as XBMC and was a fork of the original XBMC project. The focus of the Plex project was to give users a complete media center solution.Plex is generally considered by the Plex community as a su...
- 4 Jan 2014
Taking the Raspberry Pi Media Centre on the road... literally

dgashby

My family and I (wife plus two young children) are away travelling the South Island of New Zealand for our summer holiday. At least one of the places we are staying hasn't upgraded their TV to go digital, the owners usually take their Sky decod...
- 31 Dec 2013
New Year’s Eve Countdown Timer With Fireworks Launching Ability

Catwell

Before you watch this project... see my others:- The "Scary Door"- "Project Goldie" www.youtube.com/watch Chttp://twitter.com/Cabe_Atwell New Year’s Eve (NYE) is always fun, especially when something fun happens at ...
- 27 Dec 2013
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Controller Demonstration

Former Member

Hi all, The latest update on my project; using the raspberryPi as a controller for a hydrogen fuel cell with the intent on powering a remote controlled plane. Hope you find the video interesting and inspiring, if so please click LIKE! ...
- 20 Dec 2013
Sleepy Pi Overview

shabaz

IntroductionThe Sleepy Pi is a board produced not a million miles from my home town, and it is designed to extend the Raspberry Pi (RPI) capabilities. After having examined it, the conclusion is that the board is fantastic with a rich set of function...
- 14 Dec 2013
Raspberry Pi enabled Christmas Lights

shabaz

IntroductionThis was a fun project to try to make some flashing lights. Of course, it needed to be a bit more complex than that so a Raspberry Pi was used for Internet connectivity, and some analog circuitry was used to generate multiple PWM outputs...
- 12 Dec 2013
Timelapse photography project

VictoriaJones

As a keen photographer, I was intrigued by what the Point and Shoot Camera could deliver. The bundle is created using the Raspberry Pi, PiFace Control and Display and Pi Camera, all packaged up in some rather smart cases. The set up and executio...
- 3 Dec 2013
Hydrogen Fuel Cells!

Former Member

Hydrogen fuel cells (in particular PEMFCs) are an exciting technology which has been around for a while now. Unfortunately, they haven't really take off (excuse the pun) due to their high cost, poor lifetime and slow transient performance. 1...
- 2 Dec 2013
Gertboard with no leds?

Former Member

I have a Raspberry Pi Gertboad (21 Oct 2012 version) purchased fully assembly but missing the leds? I have no soldering tool, can I get another one? I can't test the leds and the push buttons if I miss the leds.I purchased it this past summer but I d...
- 24 Nov 2013
Motor Control using Raspberry Pi, chipKIT Pi and the Arduino Motor Control Shield

doctorcdf

This post is intended to demonstrate compatibility of the chipKIT Pi with certain existing Arduino shields. In the second part of this post, we will also demonstrate how to communicate with the chipKIT Pi over a simple I/O line on the Raspberry Pi, f...
- 22 Nov 2013
Build Your Own Gertboard Experimenter Kit

jealderson1

GERTBOARDS 25% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME - BUY YOURS NOW! GERTBOARDS 25% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME - BUY YOURS NOW!Back in April, I wrote about how we build a job lot of Gertboard Experimenter Kits for the Design West exhibition and conference. In case yo...
- 14 Nov 2013
[Project] Raspberry Pi Remote Fish Tank Controls - aka "Project Goldie"

Catwell

Want to build this project?View Parts Update (7/15/14): Check out my new Goldie skateboard! Part of my new line of Goldie Fishwater products? Disclaimer: I’m an engineer, not a pro film maker. Be advised.www.youtube.com/watchDiscla...
- 9 Nov 2013
My RetroPie Project

dl_evans

I took my Raspberry Pi, a case from Adafruit, and a box from Hobby Lobby and made this: Inside.The box has enough room for the Xbox 360 Controller, Xbox charge cable, wireless receiver, micro usb cable, and power supply. Outside.I painted...
- 24 Oct 2013
[PROJECT] Raspberry Pi Halloween Effects Door - aka the "Scary Door"

Catwell

#ShareTheScare this HalloweenVisit our Halloween space and find out how to win one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. There are two ways to win:Build and document your past or present Halloween projects.Tweet your best engineering spook with #ShareT...
- 4 Oct 2013
LED Coffee Table

Former Member

Hey everyone! I build a coffee table with RGB LEDs, as you can see in the following youtube video:www.youtube.com/watch For this project I first bought a cheap IKEA table for 5€ and cut a square hole in it. In this hole I glued walls out of...
- 4 Sep 2013
Portable games console

guzunty

This project turns your Raspberry Pi into a portable gaming machine. The touch screen LCD is connected using a special core running in a Guzunty programmable IO expander. This part of the project is explained here: https://github.com/Guzunt...
- 9 Aug 2013
Calling ALL Members building Pi Projects! Respond to This Post to Get a FREE PiRack.

lbittner

Take the NEW PiRack Connect Four Challenge for a chance to win a $275 Arduino Robot development kit! We have exciting news for anyone working on Pi projects! The element14 Community’s PiRack Connect Four Challenge is open for project submi...
- 6 Aug 2013