YouTube Subtitles and Why You Should Create Them
I add YouTube Subtitles to all my new Raspberry Pi videos. This is a collection…
Cheap SD Cards from eBay are Fake
This is the sad story of a fake SD card from eBay. I’ve used eBay…
How To Enable RetroPie SSH Interface
The RetroPie SSH interface is disabled by default. Follow this quick tutorial to enable SSH…
Ultimate Raspberry Pi Alexa Skill
The “Pi Spy” Raspberry Pi Alexa Skill allows you to ask about the GPIO header…
Building My Raspberry Pi Arcade Table
In a previous post I introduced my Raspberry Pi arcade table built with an IKEA…
Halloween Pumpkin with Servo Controlled Eyes
It’s Halloween 2017 and I decided to create a pumpkin with moving eyes. The result…
Kano Motion Sensor Kit for the Raspberry Pi
Kano have recently released the Kano Motion Sensor Kit and they sent me one to…
Playing ScummVM Games on the Raspberry Pi
ScummVM is a program which allows you to play some classic graphical point-and-click adventure and…
DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor and the Raspberry Pi
The DHT11 is a low-cost temperature and humidity sensor. It isn’t the fastest sensor around but…
Controlling Energenie Power Sockets with the Pi-mote Addon
Energenie create a range of remote control power socket products. These include plugin socket adapters…
KKSB Metal Cases for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3
KKSB were kind enough to send me two of their Raspberry Pi cases to try…
Pool Temperature Monitoring and Pump Control with the Pi Zero W
This summer I created a pool temperature monitoring and pump control system using a Pi…
Best MAME Games on my Raspberry Pi RetroPie System
I built my first retroPie system a few months ago using a Raspberry Pi 3 and three USB controllers. I…
The MagPi Issue 57 Comes with Google Voice Interaction Kit
The latest issue of The MagPi is out and it is a little bit special. It comes with a kit…
RasPiO Inspiring Cool RGB Light System for Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames of RasPiO has just launched a new project on Kickstarter called “RasPiO Inspiring”. This is a set of…
RGB LED Christmas Tree by PocketMoneyTronics
A few years ago I wrote about his previous “Raspberry GPIO Xmas Tree Add-on” so Andrew Gale from PocketMoneyTronics.co.uk sent me…
Amplified Voice Changer using a Raspberry Pi Zero
While researching possible upgrades for my son’s Star Wars Bounty Hunter costume I came across an excellent blog post by…
RasPiO Inspiring Cool RGB Light System for Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames of RasPiO has just launched a new project on Kickstarter called “RasPiO Inspiring”. This is a set of…
How to Change Your Character Skin In Minecraft Pi Edition
Everyone is familar with “Steve” the default Minecraft character and he looks very similar on all Minecraft platforms. It’s easy…
Piper – The Minecraft Toolbox For Raspberry Pi
Piper is a new Raspberry Pi based toolkit aimed at helping young people learn about technology by using Minecraft as…
Lumsing Grand A1 Plus Power Bank Test
The Lumsing Grand A1 Plus power bank is a large USB power bank with a capacity of 13400mAh. I’ve been…
IMNEED 3200mAh Li-on Battery Power Bank Test
The IMNEED GC-802 power bank from Lumsing is a small USB power bank with a capacity of 3200mAh. As with…
DigiMakers Bristol – 22nd March 2014
We attended another excellent Digi Makers event held at the @Bristol centre. It’s always nice to wander around and look…
DigiMakers Bristol – 1st February 2014
Despite the threats of floods and road closures we headed into Bristol today to take a look round the DigiMakers…
Waterproof Ultrasonic Distance Measuring Module
In order to measure the water level in my water butt I decided to try a waterproof ultrasonic distance measuring…
Using the BME280 I2C Temperature and Pressure Sensor in Python
The BME280 device is a digital barometric pressure sensor and is a slightly upgraded version of the BMP180. This is…
Write SD Card Images Using Etcher On Windows, Linux & Mac
In the Raspberry Pi Weekly #147 newsletter they mentioned a new tool for writing SD card images. This tool is…
How to Change Your Character Skin In Minecraft Pi Edition
Everyone is familar with “Steve” the default Minecraft character and he looks very similar on all Minecraft platforms. It’s easy…
