A functional setup for a US $100 and half a day’s investment. I am the co-founder of a startup that is essentially a podcast production company, and so far, I was using a 9 year old Dell Latitude D520 laptop running on Linux as our workhorse. I ...
Hi everyone, So, I'm a cheapskate/poor student with more ideas than resources, and no formation in electronics whatsoever. The main idea is to have a laptop which is small, cheap and fitted to take notes and give presentations. With a h...
I know these things are two-a-penny now, but here's my Pi powered Mame table. Instead of buying furniture at Ikea I decided to buy a table at a charity shop and upcycle that. I'd previously built a Picade Console, and was using that for donor pa...
The primary advantage of the Raspberry Pi NoIR camera is seeing in complete darkness. By using an Infrared light source - completely invisible to the human eye - images and videos can be captured with no visible illumination whatsoever. This vid...
No I.R.Despite its name, the new NoIR V2 camera for the Raspberry Pi isn't something designed for filming 1940's mobster movies. What makes it special isn't an additional feature, but rather what it lacks. Most digital cameras are designed to captur...
I’m building a home automation project which connects a Raspberry Pi to control my central heating. I wasn’t particularly happy ripping out all the existing controls, and wanted to piggyback onto them.. which helps if the Pi ever fails (I’ve still go...
About 6 months ago, I stumbled onto the Ben Heck Show and binge-watched several episodes before deciding to try some hardware modding myself. Here's my first project: The "PiSP Pocket"! I.e. a raspberry pi crammed into a gameboy pocket. The Pi-inside...
Need to know the distance to the sun in centimeters, what weather it will be tomorrow or turn on the lights using your voice? Or perhaps you just need someone to talk to at night, when working on your projects? With Amazon's Alexa Voice Service on th...
Introduction New age gaming is all about new technology and advanced peripherals or toys and has given rise to things such as motion gaming. The old arcade games with a big machine with large buttons and 8 bit graphics and sounds brings backs so...
I've been asked to look into "enchanting" some objects for a workshop up in Leeds at the end of the month so I thought I'd do some research into different tools to use. SoftwareI've already used Python and that has good sup...
I'm not a fan of Ikea. In fact, it's a place I usually try to avoid, until I discovered that you can hack it's ultra-cheap tables into retro video game systems! You know the one I mean: PIK3A: The Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA Retro Gaming Table. You guys...
I would like to purchase the Raspberry Pi3 and I would like to run Kodi on it. I understand that there is an sd card that goes into the Pi with Kodi on it. Can anyone advise me where I can purchase it and how do I apply it to the Pi3. Kindly help if ...
Raspberry Pi 3 temperature and cooling testing : Part 1 initial tests.Part 2 with a HAT tests.Part 3 with Fan Speed Control. (Still to come) The BeagleBoard has capes, the The specified item was not found. has Shield...
Recently we built a Plex Media Server using the Raspberry Pi 2, at the time the Raspberry Pi 2 was the most powerful board in the Raspberry Pi range. But on February 29th 2016 the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced their latest board, the Raspberry Pi...
Raspberry Pi 3 temperature and cooling testing : Part 1 Inital tests Part 2 with a HAT tests. Part 3 with Fan Speed Control. (Still to come) This experiment started out after discussions following a post by shabaz he...
Here's the latest project I've been working on: controlling the TV using gestures instead of a remote control. Mainly inspired by my kids being able to handle a tablet but not a remote control, it could perhaps also help to Make Life Accessib...
Looking for a new project to build around the Raspberry Pi Zero, I came across the pHAT DAC from Pimoroni. This little add-on board adds audio playback capabilities to the Pi Zero. Because the pHAT uses the GPIO pins, the USB OTG port remains availab...
We are the developers of WTware - thin clients operating system. This year we released new free version for Raspberry Pi 2. It makes connections to Terminal Server with Windows Server OS installed and so you can use Windows Applications on Pi 2. Plea...
RASPBERRY PI PROJECTSJust between you and me, it can sometimes be tricky finding enough content for "top lists" like these. At times it almost feels like you're settling for certain entries, rather than really wanting to put them front ...
The Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, makes it perfect for use in smaller project. Combined with internet connectivity, a display and some kind of input, it could be used to visualise virtually anything. Using a Pi Zero, an I2C OLED display from Ad...
Welcome back to the Trick or Trivia Blog. In this installment, I will show off how I built the candy dispenser that will set beside the tombstone. Unfortunately this part of the project did not turn out as I had planned because I could not find...
I received my Raspberry Pi Zero earlier this week While holding it, I noticed one of the USB hubs I had, had the same form factor as this new Pi. So I combined the two into a as small as possible package.The Pi is powered from the USB hub and the USB...
