Schlagwort: Your Projects
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Build your own Raspberry Pi night vision camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesA 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…
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Real-time train station departure board
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll across the UK, you’ll find train departure boards on station platforms that look like this: They’ve looked this way for as long as I can remember (before they were digital dot-matrix displays, they were made from those flappy bits of plastic with letters of the alphabet and numbers printed on them,…
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Use PlayStation Buzz! controllers with a Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuzz! was a favourite amongst my university housemates and me. With popular culture questions asked by an animated Jason Donovan, answered using real-life quiz controllers with a big red button, what’s not to like? But, as with most of the tech available in the early 2000s, my Buzz! controllers now sit in a…
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Pulling shower thoughts from Reddit for a Raspberry Pi e-paper display
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Reddit users among you may already be aware of the Shower Thoughts subreddit. For those of you who aren’t, Shower Thoughts is where people go to post the random epiphanies they’ve had about life, the universe, and everything. For example: YouTuber ACROBOTIC is a fan of the Shower Thoughts subreddit. So much…
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Raspberry Pi Sense HAT impact recorder for your car
Reading Time: 2 minutesLet the accelerometer and gyroscope of your Raspberry Pi Sense HAT measure and record impact sustained in a car collision. Raspberry Pi Sense HAT The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT was originally designed for the European Astro Pi Challenge, inviting schoolchildren to code their own experiments for two Raspberry Pi units currently orbiting…
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Playing Snake on a Raspberry Pi word clock
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have a soft spot for Raspberry Pi word clocks. True, they may not be as helpful as your standard clock face if you need to tell the time super quickly, but at least they’re easier to read than this binary clock built by engineerish. “But Alex,” I hear you cry, “word clocks…
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Rather lovely Raspberry Pi time lapses
Reading Time: 3 minutesHaving 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…
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Build Demolition Man’s verbal morality ticketing machine
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the 1993 action movie Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone stars as a 1990s cop transported to the near-future. Technology plays a central role in the film, often bemusing the lead character. In a memorable scene, he is repeatedly punished by a ticketing machine for using bad language (a violation of the verbal…
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Raspberry Pi internet kill switch
Reading Time: 2 minutesControl the internet in your home with this handy Raspberry Pi Zero W internet kill switch. Internet Kill Switch! It’s every teenager’s worst nightmare… no WIFI! I built a standalone wireless Internet Kill Switch that lets me turn the Internet off whenever I want. A Raspberry Pi Zero W monitors the switch…
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Take a virtual reality tour of the Raspberry Pi Store
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome months back, we received an email from Rob Chinery, explaining that he’d created a virtual reality (VR) tour of the Raspberry Pi Store, Cambridge. When I heard about the new Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge, I was immediately impressed by the design and aesthetic of the store. I thought it…
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Raspberry Pi Zero white noise night light
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany members of the Raspberry Pi team have small children. As such, many members of the Raspberry Pi team are constantly tired and walking around like zombies — loving, productive zombies humming Baby Shark while scrubbing food stains off their clothing. Whenever a Raspberry Pi project appears on social media that aids…
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IT’S SO HOT OVER HERE. WE’RE MELTING. SEND HELP.
Reading Time: 5 minutes[Today’s temperatures are set to reach a whopping 38ºC/101ºF degrees in the UK, and none of us know what to do with ourselves. This doesn’t happen here and we have nothing prepared: we live in a society devoid of air conditioning, and we’re are unable to comprehend weather conditions more friendly than…
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IT’S SO HOT OVER HERE. WE’RE MELTING. SEND HELP.
Reading Time: 5 minutes[Today’s temperatures are set to reach a whopping 38ºC/101ºF degrees in the UK, and none of us know what to do with ourselves. This doesn’t happen here and we have nothing prepared: we live in a society devoid of air conditioning, and we’re are unable to comprehend weather conditions more friendly than…
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Historical high-resolution graphics on Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi Trading engineer James Hughes recently pointed out a project to us that he’d found on the Raspberry Pi forum. Using a Raspberry Pi, forum member Rene Richarz has written a Tektronix 4010, 4013, 4014, 4015, and ARDS terminal emulator. The project sounded cool, but Helen and I didn’t 100% get…
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Bringing a book to life with Raspberry Pi | Hello World #9
Reading Time: 4 minutesSian Wheatcroft created an interactive story display to enable children to explore her picture book This Bear, That Bear. She explains the project, and her current work in teaching, in the newest issue of Hello World magazine, available now. The task of promoting my first children’s picture book, This Bear, That Bear,…
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Saving biologists’ time with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an effort to save themselves and fellow biologists hours of time each week, Team IoHeat are currently prototyping a device that allows solutions to be heated while they are still in cold storage. The IoHeat team didn’t provide any photos with their project writeup, so here’s a picture of a bored…
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Good Buoy: the Raspberry Pi Smart Buoy
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs their new YouTube video shows, the team at T3ch Flicks have been hard at work, designing and prototyping a smart buoy for marine conservation research. Smart-Buoy Series [Summary] We all love the seaside, right? Whether that’s the English seaside with ice creams and muddy piers or the Caribbean, with white sand beaches…
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Raspberry Pi mineral oil tank with added pizzazz
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis isn’t the first mineral oil bath we’ve seen for the Raspberry Pi, but it’s definitely the first we’ve seen with added fish tank decorations. Using the see-through casing of an old Apple PowerMac G4, Reddit user u/mjh2901 decided to build a mineral oil tank for their Raspberry Pi, and it looks fabulous. Renamed…
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Record the last seven seconds of everything you see
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever witnessed something marvellous but, by the time you get your camera out to record it, the moment has passed? Johan Link‘s Film in the Past hat-mounted camera is here to save the day! Record the past As 18-year-old student Johan explains, “Imagine you are walking in the street and you…
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NASA, Raspberry Pi and a mini rover
Reading Time: 4 minutesNASA scientist Dr Jamie Molaro plans to conduct potentially ground-breaking research using a Raspberry Pi seismometer and a mini rover. Jamie has been working on a payload-loaded version of NASA’s Open Source Rover In the summer of 2018, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a mini planetary rover with the aim…
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Take the Wizarding World of Harry Potter home with you
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and found yourself in possession of an interactive magic wand as a souvenir, then you’ll no doubt be wondering by now, “What do I do with it at home though?” While the wand was great for setting off window displays at the park…
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The world’s first Raspberry Pi-powered Twitter-activated jelly bean-pooping unicorn
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen eight-year-old Tru challenged the Kids Invent Stuff team to build a sparkly, pooping, rainbow unicorn electric vehicle, they did exactly that. And when Kids Invent Stuff, also known as Ruth and Shawn, got in contact with Estefannie Explains it All, their unicorn ended up getting an IoT upgrade…because obviously. You tweet and…
