Reef-Pi: the ultimate Raspberry Pi fish tank management system

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve ever had a pet fish, even the saddest of fairground goldfish, you’ll appreciate how much work and attention they require. And to those who have never owned a fish: believe me, it’s more than you’d assume. And the moment you upgrade from goldfish to brightly coloured, tropical beauties, and replace the standard silk […]

Dance magic, dance

Reading Time: 2 minutes Firstly, I’d like to apologise for rickrolling you all yesterday. I would LIKE to, but I can’t — it was just too funny to witness. But as I’m now somewhat more alive and mobile, here’s a proper blog post about proper things. And today’s proper thing is these awesome Raspberry Pi–powered dance costumes from students […]

Rescuing old cine film with Raspberry Pi Zero

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Electrical Engineer Alan Platt was given the task of converting old cine film to digital footage for his father-in-law’s 70th birthday, his first instinct was to look online. “There are plenty of companies happy to convert old films”, he explains, “but they are all extremely expensive. In addition, you have to send your original […]

Beer Cooler or: a Raspberry Pi Zero W walks into a bar…

Reading Time: 5 minutesYou know how it is. You move into a house that used to be a pub, and you can’t bring yourself to do away with the bar. In fact, after several years of planning, you find yourself buying a hand pump on eBay, and a polypin of craft ale from the local microbrewery. Suddenly, you’re […]

Halloween voice-changer using Raspberry Pi Zero

Reading Time: 2 minutesOlivier Ros has put together a short and sweet tutorial for creating your own voice-changing mask for Halloween. Voice changer with Raspberry Pi Zero for Halloween How to make a voice changer with Raspberry Pi Zero for Halloween Buy MIC+ sound card on Amazon : goo.gl/VDFzu7 tutorial here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Halloween-Voice-Changer-With-Raspberry-Pi/ https://www.raspiaudio.com/halloween Halloween: we love it! Grab […]

A waterproof Raspberry Pi?! Five 3D-printable projects to try

Reading Time: 3 minutesSummer is coming to a close. The evenings grow darker. So pack away your flip flops, hang up your beach towel, and settle in for the colder months with these fun 3D-printable projects to make at home or in your local makerspace. Fallout 4 desktop terminal Power Up Props’ replica of the Fallout desktop terminals […]

Working model of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Dave shared his Raspberry Pi Zero–powered model of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse on Reddit, we fell a little bit in love. Hello from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse Dave was getting married inside London’s only lighthouse, situated at Trinity Buoy Wharf across the water from the O2 Arena. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse The Trinity Buoy […]

Explore the depths with the PiCam Marine

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis article from The MagPi issue 74 highlights the use of the Raspberry Pi Zero to build a marine camera for coral exploration. Get your copy of The MagPi in stores now, or download it as a free PDF here. The crew took 20 000 photos in total during the cruise. Ecologists in Germany are deploying camera-equipped Pi Zero […]

Build a Raspberry Pi pocket projector…how awesome is that?!

Reading Time: 3 minutesYouTuber MickMake has been working hard on producing a Raspberry Pi pocket projector with the Raspberry Pi Zero W. We’re excited. We know you’re excited. So enough of us talking, here’s Mick with more! #210 Build a Pi Zero W pocket projector! // Project 2 for 10 PCBs (48 hour quick turn around): https://jlcpcb.com/?ref=mickmake Make […]

PiPod: the Raspberry Pi Zero portable music player

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve seen many Raspberry Pi-powered music players over the years. But rarely are they as portable (and snazzy) as the PiPod by Hackaday user Bram. Portable music My biggest regret in life? Convinced I wouldn’t need my 160GB iPod Classic anymore thanks to Spotify, I sold it to CEX for a painfully low price. But not only […]

Some of the best bicycle projects for #CycleToWorkDay

Reading Time: 3 minutesAvid followers of our Raspberry Pi Twitter account may be aware of just how bike-loving the residents of Pi Towers are. From the weekend cyclists to Cambridge-London-Cambridge racers, the flat land around our office calls us to jump on a bike and explore the fenlands. #CycleToWorkDay In celebration of #CycleToWorkDay, we’ve brought together a collection […]

The affordable Raspberry Pi night vision goggles of your dreams

Reading Time: 3 minutesI just searched online for night vision goggles, and the prices seem to vary between £600 and £27000. That’s a little bit higher than my budget of ‘as cheap as humanly possible’, but lucky for me (and you!), Redditor Mtnbikerdunn has created a set of Raspberry Pi Zero–powered night vision goggles that come in at […]

Sync modular synths and electronic instruments with a DIY kit

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Raspberry Pi community is wonderfully collaborative, with people all over the world supporting each other to make things they care about. It’s part of a much wider maker movement, and a new project from seismic industries, called spink0, brings the power of Raspberry Pi to another DIY community in the music world: modular synthesizer […]

Happy Birthday, Harry Potter: wizard-worthy Pi projects

Reading Time: 5 minutesToday marks Harry Potter’s 38th birthday. And as we’re so, so very British here at Raspberry Pi, we have no choice but to celebrate the birth of The Boy Who Lived with some wonderfully magical projects from members of the community. Build your own Daily Prophet After a trip to The Wizarding World of Harry […]

Eight(ish) Raspberry Pi projects for the summer

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe sun is actually shining here in Cambridge, and with it, summer-themed Raspberry Pi projects are sprouting like mushrooms across our UK-based community (even though mushrooms don’t like hot weather…). So we thought we’d gather some of our favourite Pi-powered projects perfect for the sun-drenched outdoors. Air quality monitors and solar radiation With the sun […]

Fancy making a motion-tracking eye in a jar?

Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing motion detection and a Raspberry Pi Zero W, Lukas Stratmann has produced this rather creepy moving eye in a jar. And with a little bit of, ahem, dissection, you can too! Floating Eye in a Jar With Motion Tracking Made for an Arts seminar I attended for my General Studies, i.e. classes not organized […]

Using E Ink displays with a Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 4 minutesAre you interested in using an E Ink display in your next Raspberry Pi project? Let us help you get started! Weather and new display using a Raspberry Pi Zero and Kindle e-reader by Luke Haas E Ink displays E Ink displays are accessible, they don’t need a lot of power, and they can display […]

Build your own Arthur satellite dish for tracking the ISS

Reading Time: 3 minutesConstruct a 3D paper model of the iconic Arthur satellite dish that notifies you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead! Project_Arthur Project_Arthur is a fun project allowing you to construct a 3d paper model of the Antenna 1 dish called Arthur from Goonhilly. The model will track the location of the ISS (International Space […]

Recording lost seconds with the Augenblick blink camera

Reading Time: 3 minutesWarning: GIFs used in today’s blog contain flashing images. Students at the University of Bremen, Germany, have built a wearable camera that records the seconds of vision lost when you blink. Augenblick uses a Raspberry Pi Zero and Camera Module alongside muscle sensors to record footage whenever you close your eyes, producing a rather disjointed […]

Converting a Kodak Box Brownie into a digital camera

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this article from The MagPi issue 69, David Crookes explains how Daniel Berrangé took an old Kodak Brownie from the 1950s and turned it into a quirky digital camera. Get your copy of The MagPi magazine in stores now, or download it as a free PDF here. The Kodak Box Brownie When Kodak unveiled its Box Brownie in 1900, […]

Stream to Twitch with the push of a button

Reading Time: 4 minutesStream your video gaming exploits to the internet at the touch of a button with the Twitch-O-Matic. Everyone else is doing it, so you should too. Twitch-O-Matic: Raspberry Pi Twitch Streaming Device – Weekend Hacker #1804 Some gaming consoles make it easy to stream to Twitch, some gaming consoles don’t (come on, Nintendo). So for […]

AIY Projects 2: Google’s AIY Projects Kits get an upgrade

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter the outstanding success of their AIY Projects Voice and Vision Kits, Google has announced the release of upgraded kits, complete with Raspberry Pi Zero WH, Camera Module, and preloaded SD card. Google’s AIY Projects Kits Google launched the AIY Projects Voice Kit last year, first as a cover gift with The MagPi magazine and […]