Raspberry Pi projects

Alpakka controller for the Pico If you ever wanted a controller, you could go out and buy one. But we’re Raspberry Pi enthusiasts! We’ll do stuff that’s 100 times harder because it’s 100 times more fun! So, scrap that Logitech gamepad order and build an Alpakka controller from Input Labs. Alpakka actually offers you some…

Interactive fiction games with Raspberry Pi Pico Eric Badger has created the BadgerFrotz, which allows you to play Interactive Fiction games like Zork. Eric built this system by porting the Frotz Z-Machine port which is an interpreter for all Infocom and other Z-Machine games. He also had to figure out a way to output video…

What happens if you can’t get a heat sink in time for your project, but want to start immediately? How about liquid-cooling? A guy named Joel posted this cooling solution for their Raspberry Pi 4. According to Joel’s blog, he started using his Raspberry Pi 4 as a NAS to store stuff. However, he wasn’t…

Boy, oh, boy do we have some interesting projects this week. The first project is a radio-controlled submarine that can sink, surface, turn and move. At the heart of the submarine is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2. The second project is a “Pieca” camera, named after a Leica camera. The key similarity between the Pieca…

Sometimes your computer needs just one button to activate a specific action. If you are transcribing an audio recording, you might want one button to rewind the track three seconds. If you are picky about your music, you might want a specific button to skip a track. If you are an employee who needs to…

E-paper calendar Reddit user Beaverknighterino said he was “fascinated with E-paper projects so I finally decided to make one for my work calendar.” The materials Beaverknighterino used are as such: Waveshare 7.5” B/W 800×480 E-paper Raspberry Pi Zero W Xiaomi 10000mAH Power bank IKEA HOVSTA Picture frame Beaverknighterino mentioned that the project was made a…

Nobody asked for these, but we Raspberry Pi fans just built it anyway. Smile detector A smile detector for anyone who has asked me to smile more ⚡😊 pic.twitter.com/IFgIks0rkU — lee cyborg 🦞🔭 (@Leeborg_) June 2, 2022 Take this project from lee cyborg. Lee built a smile detector which, as you can see from the…

Ever seen the meme that goes like “Modern problems require modern solutions?” Well, what happens if your modern solutions create some modern problems? Well then, you need a modern solution. Hence, modern solutions require modern solutions. Sometimes, though, these problems are so minor that manufacturers won’t bother creating a solution for you. Luckily, as Raspberry…