Reading Time: 2 minutes SleePi is a real-time sleepiness detection and alert system developed especially for Raspberry Pi and our Raspberry Pi Camera Module 2 NoIR. Driver drowsiness detection was the original application for this project, and Raspberry Pi was chosen for it because it’s small enough to not obstruct a driver’s view and can be powered from a…… Continue reading SleePi sounds alarm when Raspberry Pi detects sleepiness
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These Furby-‘controlled’ Raspberry Pi-powered eyes follow you
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sam Battle aka LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER couldn’t resist splashing out on a clear Macintosh case for a new project in his ‘Cosmo’ series of builds, which inject new life into retro hardware. AAGGGGHHHHHHH! This time around, a Raspberry Pi, running facial recognition software, and one of our Camera Modules enable Furby-style eyes to track…… Continue reading These Furby-‘controlled’ Raspberry Pi-powered eyes follow you
Raspberry Pi vs antibiotic resistance: microbiology imaging with open source hardware
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Edwards Lab at the University of Reading has developed a flexible, low-cost, open source lab robot for capturing images of microbiology samples with a Raspberry Pi camera module. It’s called POLIR, for Raspberry Pi camera Open-source Laboratory Imaging Robot. Here’s a timelapse video of them assembling it. Measuring antibiotic resistance with colour-changing dye The…… Continue reading Raspberry Pi vs antibiotic resistance: microbiology imaging with open source hardware
Build a Raspberry Pi laser scanner
Reading Time: 2 minutes You really don’t need anything too fancy to build this Raspberry Pi laser scanner, and that’s why we think it’s pretty wonderful. Rasperry Pi 3D Laser Scanner Cornell University: ECE 5725 Michael Xiao and Thomas Scavella Building a Raspberry Pi laser scanner The ingredients you’ll need to build the laser scanner are: Raspberry Pi Raspberry…… Continue reading Build a Raspberry Pi laser scanner
How to set up OctoPrint on your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 8 minutes If you own a 3D printer, you’ll likely have at least heard of OctoPrint from the ever benevolent 3D printing online community. It has the potential to transform your 3D printing workflow for the better, and it’s very easy to set up. This guide will take you through the setup process step by step, and…… Continue reading How to set up OctoPrint on your Raspberry Pi
Really, really awesome Raspberry Pi NeoPixel LED mirror
Reading Time: 2 minutes Check out Super Make Something’s awesome NeoPixel LED mirror: a 576 RGB LED display that converts images via the Raspberry Pi Camera Module and Raspberry Pi 3B+ into a pixelated light show. Neopixel LED Mirror (Python, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting!) DIY How To Time to pull out all the stops for the…… Continue reading Really, really awesome Raspberry Pi NeoPixel LED mirror
The Nest Box: DIY Springwatch with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, lots and lots of you shared your Raspberry Pi builds with us on social media using the hashtag #IUseMyRaspberryPiFor. Jay Wainwright from Liverpool noticed the conversation and got in touch to tell us about The Nest Box, which uses Raspberry Pi to bring impressively high-quality images and video from British bird boxes to…… Continue reading The Nest Box: DIY Springwatch with Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi snail habitats for Mrs Nation’s class
Reading Time: 2 minutes These Raspberry Pis take hourly photographs of snails in plastic container habitats, sharing them to the Snail Habitat website. Snails While some might find them kind of icky, I am in love with snails (less so with their homeless cousin, the slug), so this snail habitat project from Mrs Nation’s class is right up my…… Continue reading Raspberry Pi snail habitats for Mrs Nation’s class
Estefannie’s Jurassic Park goggles
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we invited Estefannie Explains It All to present at Coolest Projects International, she decided to make something cool with a Raspberry Pi to bring along. But being Estefannie, she didn’t just make something a little bit cool. She went ahead and made Raspberry Pi Zero-powered Jurassic Park goggles, or, as she calls them, the…… Continue reading Estefannie’s Jurassic Park goggles
Growth Monitor pi: an open monitoring system for plant science
Reading Time: 3 minutes Plant scientists and agronomists use growth chambers to provide consistent growing conditions for the plants they study. This reduces confounding variables – inconsistent temperature or light levels, for example – that could render the results of their experiments less meaningful. To make sure that conditions really are consistent both within and between growth chambers, which…… Continue reading Growth Monitor pi: an open monitoring system for plant science
A low-cost, open-source, computer-assisted microscope
Reading Time: 2 minutes Low-cost open labware is a good thing in the world, and I was particularly pleased when micropalaeontologist Martin Tetard got in touch about the Raspberry Pi-based microscope he is developing. The project is called microscoPI (what else?), and it can capture, process, and store images and image analysis results. Martin is engaged in climate research:…… Continue reading A low-cost, open-source, computer-assisted microscope
Retrofit a vintage camera flash with a Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Wanting to break from the standard practice of updating old analogue cameras with digital technology, Alan Wang decided to retrofit a broken vintage camera flash with a Raspberry Pi Zero W to produce a video-capturing action cam. Raspberry Pi Zero Flash Cam Video Test Full story of this project: https://www.hackster.io/alankrantas/raspberry-pi-zero-flash-cam-359875 By hacking a somewhat gnarly…… Continue reading Retrofit a vintage camera flash with a Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Build your own Raspberry Pi night vision camera
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Raspberry Pi Zero W, Pimoroni HyperPixel screen, and Raspberry Pi IR Camera Module are all you need to build this homemade night vision camera. How to build a night vision camera How to build a night vision camera, video showing the process and problems that I came across when building this camera Raspberry Pi night…… Continue reading Build your own Raspberry Pi night vision camera
Rather lovely Raspberry Pi time lapses
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having just sat and watched this gorgeous time lapse of a Finnish lake, we thought it would be nice to finish off the working week with a collection of lovely Raspberry Pi Camera Module time lapses. Summer over a Finnish lake Summer time lapse over a Finnish lake. Time lapse over a Finnish lake from…… Continue reading Rather lovely Raspberry Pi time lapses