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Raspberry Pi Roundup - a physical PacMan game, a new Home Automation framework and a Harry Potter-inspired animated picture frame
PacMan Emanuele Coletta and friends have created a physical representation of a Pac Man game. The game characters were 3D printed and the ‘pills’ collected by Pac Man were changed to...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - an animated weather lamp, a parking assistance device and a grandfather clock bar
Weather Lamp Gosse Adema has created a 12-inch high 3D-printed lamp that tells you the weather forecast. He has used 288 WS2812 addressable LEDs to achieve a stunning effect which...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a robotics event in Cambridge, a smart electricity meter and a vintage phone jukebox
Pi Wars 2018 Hi everyone! At The Pi Hut, we're sponsoring this great Cambridge-based community event. This year’s Pi Wars competition is really hotting up with 76 teams currently preparing to take...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Star Trek combadge, a DIY radio telescope and a fireflies simulator
Star Trek Combadge Michael Darby wanted to make something like a Star Trek combadge that would respond to voice commands. He took a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pimoroni Speaker...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - build your own VR goggles, hack a Chinese digger and give your wedding some Pi sparkle!
VR goggles Caleb has put together this lovely hack which involves a Raspberry Pi Zero, an accelerometer breakout board, a 5″ TFT screen, some cables and a shedload of cardboard....
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a facial recognition timer, a clock/temperature monitor and a DIY 3D scanner
Facial Recognition dekuNukem has created a great system for keeping track of how long you spend playing games working hard in front of your computer screen. He’s taken a Pi camera module,...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a pi-top v2 review, news about Pi Wars: Scotland and an interview with Pi creator Eben Upton
pi-top Review The pi-top is the pre-eminent laptop solution for Raspberry Pi users. It started life as a 2014 IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign before being made available for retail. An improved...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a disabled help system, an earthquake monitoring system, and re-using a Kindle as a Pi screen
Tetraplegia A recent hackathon, hackABILITY, brought together teams to concentrate on providing solutions to disabled people. One team of the seven that competed, AIDex, came together to use AI and speech recognition...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a new version of the Pi Zero with a soldered header, a barking dog monitor and a DIY universal remote
Raspberry Pi Zero WH The Raspberry Pi Zero has always had the issue that the owner of the Zero has needed to solder their own headers if they wanted them....
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a portable trail camera, an e-ink status display and an animal habitat monitor
Portable Trail Camera Gary has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a Pi NoIR Camera and an Infrared LED light source and created a portable ‘trail camera’. A 12V power source...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - news on security exploits, a blinky status display and a Google AIY project
Spectre/Meltdown Two security vulnerabilities announced in recent days, Spectre and Meltdown, affect modern CPUs from Intel, ARM and AMD. There has been a fair amount of press coverage (Google it...
