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Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Star Wars Alexa bot, using the Skywriter and Unicorn together and a big Pi Wars announcement!
Star Wars / Alexa For those of you who don’t follow cinema avidly, I should first of all say: There’s a new Star Wars movie out. This one’s called ‘Solo‘...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - Aliens motion tracker, Wheel of Fortune and a Calendar Clock
"It's the only way to be sure" Richard Martin has taken a Hama slide viewer, a small screen and a Raspberry Pi, together with some power and audio circuitry, and...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Sonic Pi-controlled glockenspiel, a fleet monitoring device and a satellite station model
Glockenspiel Robin Newman has taken a 30-year old glockenspiel, some solenoids, a RasPiO ProHAT and a custom circuit and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi. The code is in...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Doctor Who rescue mission, image recognition, steam whistles and a weather station
K9 Rescue Gary Taylor from Dundee’s Abertay University found an original, but water-damaged, K9 BBC TV prop in his University’s lab and, because he is an enormous Doctor Who and...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Pi-powered plotter, an Ivory Coast project and a bomb-disposal unit in the making
Polar Plotter John Proudlock has used a Raspberry Pi to control a vertically-mounted plotter that creates stunning artwork. Called InkyLines, the Raspberry Pi is used to read in a low-resolution image...
The Alpha Boards Have Arrived
Alpha Boards arrived with Eben today and both Linux, network and SD Card access where all working! Here's a video of Eben talking about the board and the various bits...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a talking book, a blink-detecting camera and a multi-line hack for the Inky pHAT
Talkback Dan Aldred runs a Raspberry Pi club and asked the kids what they wanted to create. They replied that they wanted to make a book that talks to you,...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a dual-sensor theremin, a sparkly pHAT and a bee counting Pi
Theremin Robin Newman, who is an expert with Sonic Pi, has created a lovely theremin-like musical instrument using a Raspberry Pi. He has wired up two ultrasonic distance sensors to...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a joke vomiting machine, a coughing planter and a Magic: the Gathering card sorter
Joke Vomit One enterprising programmer has created a Raspberry Pi script that generates random comic strip jokes. They’ve then adapted the script to print out on a tiny thermal printer...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a bendy lamp projector, a Pi-powered ISA card and an FTP server tutorial
Bendy Lamp Nord Projects Lantern “transforms any surface into an ambient, smart interface.” It uses the Android Things OS and scripts written by Nord Projects to project different images onto...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a new issue of the MagPi, an upgrade to Etcher and a multi-touch skin device
MagPi #69 The new issue of The MagPi is out with plenty of features to read and makes to replicate. The main feature is on bringing Pi power to the...
Raspberry Pi Roundup - a Pi-powered Polaroid, Ghost Chess and a pi-topOS update
Polaroid A crafty maker called Mitxela has taken an old Polaroid camera and converted it to use a Raspberry Pi Zero and a thermal printer. The build itself is interesting...
