Lifehacker Australia Make The Most Professional NES Yet With 3D Printing And A Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia One of the first things people did with the Raspberry Pi was make emulators for all their favourite retro games. But now that 3D printing is on the up and up, we're seeing more professional-looking outer cases, too.
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Matt Timmons-Brown, who you may know better as The Raspberry Pi Guy, is one of our favourite makers of Raspberry Pi tutorials. Those of you who follow him will have noticed that he’s been curiously absent since the start of the year.
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The triumphant return of the Raspberry Pi Guy
Massive thanks to Clive for babysitting this blog (he’s been both writing and editing) while I was away. Any relaxation I was still feeling from the vacation evaporated the moment I saw my inbox
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SamplerBox – drop-and-play sampler
I can’t believe we’re on our third issue of the new MagPi already. Your free Raspberry Pi magazine is ready to download here
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MagPi issue 33 – out now!
Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing because 'I wanted to beat my friend … Techworld.com Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing because 'I wanted to beat my friend at programming'. Techworld talks to Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton about skills shortages, his first brush with computing and his favourite ways in which hobbyists are using ..
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Our old friend HomoFaciens (who has the best voice of any Raspberry Pi user we’ve met) has another fantastic piece of work to share. He’s recycled old optical drives for their stepper motors, and made a tiny plotter, controlled over WiFi, from those motors, a servo, four H-bridges and a Raspberry Pi.
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Plotter made from scrap computer parts
I get asked sometimes what my favourite projects from this blog are. Dave Hunt’s water droplet photography’s right up there: Dave rigged up a Pi to trigger a solenoid valve and a camera shutter at the same time, to take perfectly timed macro photos of water drops. You can see his original, beautiful pictures here in our archives.
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Droplet photography
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Raspberry Pi used to add useful or entertaining features to a doorbell, but it’s probably the most feature-rich doorbell hack we’ve come across.
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Raspberry Pi Internet doorbell
Get A PS1 Emulator Up And Running On A Raspberry Pi 2 Lifehacker Australia The Raspberry Pi 2 is fast enough to run a bunch of new emulators, but the Playstation emulator is easily the one people are the most excited about.
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On Saturday, something rather special happened in Cambridge. Tim Richardson and Mike Horne , who run the regular CamJam , were holding a special event: a robotics Raspberry Jam, with competitions for attending teams who had built their Pis into a robot. Eben and I were judging.
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PiWars – Cambridge Jam. With robots.