DIY Projects

Patrick Thomas Mitchell has been once again been creating awesome add-ons for your Arduino projects and has this month launched a new Kickstarter campaign for his Arduino speech recognition and relay board modules. The Arduino compatible modules are now production ready and have been designed to … [Read more...] about Bluetooth Arduino Speech Recognition And Relay Board Modules (video)

Anyone who has wanted to build a very own virtual helper might be interested in a project that has been published over on the Instructables website by user Janw that shows you how to make a Raspberry Pi personal assistant. The project to create the Raspberry Pi personal assistant was inspired … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Personal Assistant (video)

Those luckily enough to own a 3D printer and enjoying building a Raspberry Pi robot, or would like to start, may gain more inspiration from this awesome Pi Tank robot. The Pi Tank takes that form of a 3D Printed open source Raspberry Pi powered vehicle/robot that can be controlled using a … [Read more...] about Pi Tank 3D Printed Open Source Smartphone Controlled Raspberry Pi Robot (video)

Instructables user “appleman123987” has created a great little Raspberry Pi portable system that includes a 3.5 inch screen using a modified car backup monitor, that has been removed from its casing. The system is not touchscreen so will required additional keyboard and mouse to control but … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Portable Created Using Car Backup Monitor

Anyone who enjoys building projects using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC might be interested in a project that has been published by DIY Tryin. The project transforms a $35 Raspberry Pi into a home theater PC that is capable of streaming media from your home library of movies as well as providing … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Home Theater Streams Netflix, Amazon And Your Movie Collection (video)

Now that the new quad core Raspberry Pi 2 into mini computer has been launched providing quad core power for your needs. You might be interested in building your very own retro Raspberry Pi powered arcade cabinet. But if you are a little worried about having to program the mini computer, how about … [Read more...] about DIY Retro Raspberry Pi Arcade Built Without The Need For Programming (video)

A high school computer teacher based in Sydney, Australia, has used the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC together with a 3D printed framework together with a few sensors and other components to create a fantastic Tank Bot. The Drogerdy as its has been named builds on previous designs and is the second … [Read more...] about Drogerdy Raspberry Pi 3D Printed Tank Bot Created By Teacher (video)

Makers, developers and hobbyists that are considering building a retro-styled PC system, may be interested in a new DIY Commodore 64 based MOS 6502 microcomputer system, that has been built by Dirk Grappendorf based in Dortmund, Germany. The DIY Commodore 64 styled project can use a 8-bit MOS 6502 … [Read more...] about DIY Commodore 64 Style All-In-One Powered By 8-bit MOS 6502 CPU

If you have just purchased one of the newly launched and more powerful Raspberry Pi quad core mini PCs. That were launched at the start of the week, a Raspberry Pi games emulator might be worth more investigation. The PiGRRL Pack kit created by Adafruit will allow you to transform your new … [Read more...] about Adafruit PiGRRL Pack Lets Your Easily Create A Raspberry Pi Games Emulator