Pi Day Projects from element14 presents

Sunday the 14th will the Pi day 2021 and we are rounding up our favorite element14 presents, Raspberry Pi Projects

The Future!

Episode 488: DIY Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck

In the distant year of 2021, the days of the old-fashioned laptop are long gone and a new class of portable computer reigns supreme: the cyberdeck. When life imitates cyber art, you get a unique, electronic device and the latest way to get that geek internet cred. Cyberdecks are portable portals to cyberspace and today DJ will show you how he built his own custom rig using the latest in DIY electronics in personal manufacturing.

Episode 414: Raspberry Pi 4 Experimental Resin 3D Printer

Episode 452: Raspberry Pi 4 Experimental Resin 3D Printer Updated!

Clem has built a giant resin based 3d printer concept in a previous video, and today it is time to put the concept upside down! The people on the element14 community gave him a lot of advice and ideas to make his idea finally work as it should! Clem builds a second iteration of his 3d printer using daylight resins and easily obtainable parts.  The new Raspberry pi 4 8 GB reduces slicing times and makes for a more responsive GUI on this experimental 3d printer! Now its time for the community to take his findings and iterate  for a bright future of cheap huge 3d printers!

The New Raspberry Pi HQ Camera!

Episode 465: Lego Raspberry Pi HQ Camera

Ever thought that kids get much better looking gadgets, or toys look more fun that their real versions? Me too! So we’re going to build a Lego camera into a fully working telephoto camera using a RaspberryPi and the High Quality Camera with 16mm telephoto lens.  Can I make a pretend camera into a real working camera that is actually worth using? Let's find out!

Retro Spectaculars!

Episode 479: Raspberry Pi 2XL Robot Assistant Part 2

In a previous element14 Presents project, Matt took an old 2XL robot toy from the 1970s and, with the help of a Raspberry Pi, dragged it into the 21st century by turning it into a functional AI voice assistant. Now, after a few other challenges focusing on retro computers and esoteric timepieces, he's back to put some finishing touches on 2XL! In this video, Matt will repair the malfunctioning 8-track player that is at the heart of the original 2XL toy, attempt to build a voice changer to make his assistant sound more like the original robot voice, and top it all off by building a power distribution solution that will allow him to run everything from a single power supply!

Episode 428: Raspberry Pi 4 CRT-based VR Headset

What would virtual reality be like if flat panel display technology were never invented? In this project, Andy uses a pair of CRTs and the Raspberry Pi 4 to build a VR headset with stereoscopic 3D, 3DOF head tracking, and custom, browser-based software. It may not be practical but it's definitely unique, and guaranteed to have no screen door effect.

Pop Culture Heaven!

Episode 461: Portal 2 Security Camera with Raspberry Pi 2

It’s difficult to take part in conference calls. The 2d nature of the call doesn’t allow social interaction. What if you could look at people in your conference call using a virtual reality headset? A picture of you would move left and right as your head moves left and right. Other attendees can look around and chat to the person they want to talk to. Lorraine shows how to setup a first person view raspberry pi that connects to a virtual reality headset or a simple browser window. This project has lots of potential outside of conference calls such as security cameras, nature cameras and first person view robots.

Episode 445: Raspberry Pi 4 Animatronic BD-1 Companion Robot

ot for himself. Some things definitely had to be achieved for this build, like the display in the back of the head or the stim / med pack shooter of the buddy robot. Adding the projector complicated the build, as now the power consumption got even bigger than the Raspberry PI would already takes. This astrobot is not designed to walk around, but rather sit on your shoulder, like in the game.

Raspberry Pi Helps during 2020's Pandemic

Episode 459: Raspberry Pi 4 VR Conference Call Assistant

It’s difficult to take part in conference calls. The 2d nature of the call doesn’t allow social interaction. What if you could look at people in your conference call using a virtual reality headset? A picture of you would move left and right as your head moves left and right. Other attendees can look around and chat to the person they want to talk to. Lorraine shows how to setup a first person view raspberry pi that connects to a virtual reality headset or a simple browser window. This project has lots of potential outside of conference calls such as security cameras, nature cameras and first person view robots.

Episode 463: Raspberry Pi Speech to Text LED Face Mask

Even with the best of hearing, it can be difficult to understand what someone wearing a face mask is saying. Many people who are hard of hearing rely on using lip reading to understand what everyone is saying. With everyone wearing face masks, that amazing skill has been taken away. This project aims to help us all wear masks, look cool and understand each other more. A light up grid will be hidden inside your mask, and using a microphone your every word will be transcribed and scrolled across your face mask Lorraine will show you how to code an LED speech-to-text mask using a raspberry pi. This project has lots of potential to become a real life object, used in everyday life. Check out the links below for a further video where Lorraine explores using a paid for transcription services on a PC with Bluetooth to make a working scrolling facemask. Good enough for a doctor’s surgery to use for their patients.

Episode 451: Build an Off Grid Wikipedia with Raspberry Pi

We all rely on the internet as a reference library. In those cases when you do not have access to the internet, it's pretty difficult to access the information you need. What if you could build a device that had the entirety of Wikipedia on it and you could connect to it with your phone no matter where you are? Let me show you my implementation of the Free and Open Source project Kiwix.

SPAAAAAACEEEE!

Episode 441: Raspberry Pi 4 International Space Station Tracker

Reminding ourselves that a football-field-sized structure is orbiting around Earth at a speed 10 times faster than what the average bullet leaves a gun, is a good way to keep spaceflight from fading from our collective consciousness. And, although there are apps that can do this for us, tracking when the International Space Station (ISS) is passing right above us makes for a great DIY project. In this video, I combine a Raspberry Pi, a Touchscreen, and an array of LEDs, together with some HTML, JavaScript, and Python, to build a simple Data Visualization device that shows when the next pass of the ISS will be over our location—spoiler alert: it happens more frequently than we might think!

Episode 436: Automated Raspberry Pi Planet Tracking GOTO Telescope

In this video Derek takes a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, inertial measurement unit, CCD camera and a beefed-up pan & tilt mechanism to create an automated planet tracker. Everything is orchestrated via a custom arcade-style controller centered around a Raspberry Pi running C++/OpenCV code to run the UI and control positioning.

I hope you enjoyed our round up of our favorite projects which is your Favorite?

Is there a project you would like to see from the lovely folks at element14 presents