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Homemade Synth as Easy as Pi

Home News (Image credit: Simon Martin/Raspberry Pi Foundation) Guitars are 3,000 years old and the piano dates back to 1700, so musical instruments are facing a serious crisis of modernity. Why not, then, create your own, new, musical instrument, and show Mozart what for? This is precisely what design engineer Simon Martin has done, by… Read more

Raspberry Pi Zero Robot Arm Works With PS4 Controller

Home News (Image credit: Dr2mod) Redditor Dr2mod is at it again; We recently shared Dr2mod’s SDR airplane monitor and today we’re excited to share another cool Raspberry Pi project they’ve created—a 3D-printed robotic arm operated wirelessly by a PS4 controller. According to the Dr2mod, the robotic arm was printed a while ago and gathering dust,… Read more

How to Build an RP2040 Powered Shortcut Keyboard

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The number of keystrokes we record in a day is huge. From messaging apps to coding or writing that next novel, the sheer number of key presses is hard to calculate. But what if we could save a little time and our aching joints by creating a shortcut keypad?… Read more

Raspberry Pi Bot Trades Crypto While You Sleep

Home News (Image credit: GooseRepresentative1) Looking for an open-source cryptocurrency trading solution? GooseRepresentative1 has got you covered with this automated, Raspberry Pi self-trading cryptocurrency bot project! The best Raspberry Pi projects make life easier and this bot definitely earns its keep. According to GooseRepresentative1, you miss every shot you don’t take and sleeping takes away… Read more

Is there any way out of Clearview’s facial recognition database?

In March 2020, two months after The New York Times exposed that Clearview AI had scraped billions of images from the internet to create a facial recognition database, Thomas Smith received a dossier encompassing most of his digital life. Using the recently enacted California Consumer Privacy Act, Smith asked Clearview for what they had on… Read more

Raspberry Pi Traffic Light Changes Based on Air Quality

Home News (Image credit: Dmytro Panin) This Raspberry Pi project looks like a toy but it’s actually a useful air quality reporting system. It was created by maker Dmytro Panin who used a toy traffic light alongside a Raspberry Pi 3B+ to create the final design. The best Raspberry Pi projects improve our quality of… Read more

Flamethrowing Raspberry Pi Roomba Project Balances Danger and Fun

Home News (Image credit: Alfredo Sequeida) With many Raspberry Pi projects, it’s common to wonder why makers would choose to use a Raspberry Pi, but today we’re asking Alfredo Sequieda why he has done this project at all. In a hilarious yet dangerous burst of creativity, Sequieda has created a Raspberry Pi-powered flamethrowing Roomba. This… Read more

How to Track Satellite Fly-Bys with Raspberry Pi

With SpaceX’s Starlink being made available in my area, I became curious about just how many satellites were overhead at any given time. Fortunately, the US Space Command tracks and makes available data for tracking the live positions of objects in orbit. We can download this data, and use a Raspberry Pi and some speakers… Read more

How To Build A Simple Raspberry Pi Pico Robot

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Building robots is an awesome way to learn electronics and programming. We have the excitement of making something move, along with learning life-long coding skills that will help us create many different projects. Robots are made using two disciplines. The first is the engineering of building a chassis and… Read more

Enhanced Raspberry Pi GPIO Support Added to Ubuntu 21.04

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The dev team for Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi shared a blog post this week detailing key new features in the latest update for Ubuntu 21.04. The most recent version of Ubuntu is confirmed to officially include enhanced GPIO support on the Raspberry Pi via a new Python library…. Read more

CircuitPython Powers TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator

Home News (Image credit: Mr. Posnanski) Math class just got even more fun! If you’re lucky enough to get your hands on the new TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator from Texas Instruments, you now have the opportunity to tinker with CircuitPython! That’s right, it’s not just for the Raspberry Pi Pico and other microcontrollers…. Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Pong Plays on Pimoroni Unicorn

Home News (Image credit: Pip Austin) If there’s one thing we’ve noticed over the years, it’s that the Raspberry Pi is deeply intertwined with retro gaming. This project, created by developer Pip Austin, proves this by bringing Pong’s classic game to our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico. According to Austin, who shared the development… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Soap Dispenser Keeps Things Squeaky Clean

Home News (Image credit: Mellow Fire) If you’re looking for a useful Raspberry Pi project to work on this summer, why not make something you can use every day? The world of DIY home automation is very accessible thanks to projects such as this automatic soap dispenser project, created by a developer known as Mellow… Read more

How to Turn a Rotary Phone into Google Assistant with Raspberry Pi

I have some old telephones lying around – few of them fully functional anymore. I was going to throw out one of them when I realized I could replace the inner wiring with a Raspberry Pi, and have the Google Assistant running on it. While it’s certainly easier to call “hey google” across the room,… Read more

Maker Uses Raspberry Pi to Control LEDs With His Mind

Home News (Image credit: The_Wolfiee) You read that title correctly, this maker is using the power of his mind, or brain waves, to control LEDs with a Raspberry Pi. The trick to every good Pi project is finding the right hardware to attach, and this maker, known on Reddit as The_Wolfiee, opted to use a… Read more