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Make Your Own Raspberry Pi Cell Phone Sep 19, 2018

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First manufacturers stopped you from adding an sdcard, then they took away our ability to replace the battery! Now the headphone jack is replaced solely with Bluetooth. It's time to take back control and produce your own cell phone, and you can using a Raspberry Pi and ATMega32u4! What alterations would you make to your own mobile phone? Let the team know on the element14 Community!

Make Your Own CNC Pyrography Wood Burner Sep 14, 2018

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Clem ramps up CNC control by taking apart his CNC Router to create something new! So out with the old GRBL controller board and in with the Arduino Mega 2560 and RAMPs to create a CNC pyrography wood burner with the Marlin firmware and appropriate power supply and limit switches, though it's not without its difficulties! What do you think? Let the team know on the element14 Community.

The Shrimp of Terror Sep 07, 2018

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Clem was so pre-occupied with whether he could, he didn't stop to think whether or not he should! Most prehistoric creatures should probably stay in the ground, but with the use of resin, silicone and polymer clay Clem brings an anomalocaris back to live using motor control and an Arduino Nano! What animatronics have you made? What would you do differently? Let us know on the element14 Community.

Raspberry Pi Asteroid Tracker Aug 31, 2018

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Whether you call them "blinkies", "throwies", "sparklers", or anything else, LED art is an interesting nexus of street art and hacker culture. Events such as DEFCON even have exhibitions for the most creative blinky designs while maker storefronts sell them in every conceivable shape. In this video, Matt collaborates with his friends at the National Upcycled Computing Collective to build a solar-powered "smart" blinky that not only looks cool at night, but contributes its computing power to a worldwide network that's looking for disease cures, extraterrestrial intelligence, rogue asteroids, and more! Let the Matt know if you’ve done any Rube Goldberg projects using the Raspberry Pi or Solar Power on the element14 community

Bank to the Future with Arduino & TI Aug 16, 2018

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Whether you're saving up for a rainy day or you're adding that bit of realism to your mame arcade cabinet to handle those extra coins for credits, join the bald engineer as he adds capacitive sensing to organise and sort coins using Arduino and Texas Instruments microcontrollers helped out by an oscilloscope. Do you think it works better as a coin bank or useful in a vending machine? Let the team know how you've used capacitive sensing or coin returns on the element14 Community.

Raspberry Pi Pirate Radio Aug 16, 2018

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Do you own a Raspberry Pi? Ever wanted to host your own Radio Station? Did you know that you can make an FM Radio transmitter with a Raspberry Pi? That's right, to transmit audio over the radio waves all you need is the right programming code, the appropriate wiring and away you go! Have you tried this yourself? What other uses can you think of for transmitting radio like this? Let the team know on the element14 Community!

Tiny Vacuum Forming Machine Aug 10, 2018

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When 3D Printing and Lasers don't cut it - how about vacuum forming? Vacuum forming is still a valid technique for creating well fitted enclosures, cases or to duplicate items where fine detail may not be required. So join Clem as he creates his own rig with a heat gun and vacuum cleaner - extending its functionality with an Arduino based microcontroller all controlled with C++ programming and remote power socket control. Do you use vacuum forming? What would you do differently about this build? Let the team know on the element14 Community.

Program Your Own FPGA Video Game Aug 03, 2018

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It all started with Pong, gaming that is. A digital version of tennis created and presented in an arcade machine, likely made for a pub. So what better way to start with programming on a custom microcontroller than with your own game of Pong using a NES controller? In this episode, find out how to use an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) such as Altera's DE0-Nano to make your own Pong game and output it to a monitor. Do you have experience with FPGAs? Or do you code your own games? Let the team know on the element14 Community

Pripyat - DIY Geiger Counter Jul 27, 2018

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There is radiation literally everywhere, from the sun to sources you wouldn't even think of like bananas and brazil nuts! You can't avoid it, but we can detect it! Join Matt as he 3D Prints and puts together a geiger counter to detect the radiation around you using old soviet geiger tubes based on the cdv-700. What have you detected around you? Would you write the Arduino code differently? Let the team know on the element14 Community!

Rocket Pi with Clem Mayer Jul 06, 2018

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Many people want to go into space, to explore new frontiers. Clem however, wants to take photo's of himself using a rocket powered Raspberry Pi. Join Clem as he 3D prints a propelled rocket, including parachute, and teaches you how to reach for the stars with electronics and computer aided design. Have you designed something similar? How high have you sent your Raspberry Pi? Let us know on the element14 Community

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