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A precise and upgradable robot base built around a raspberry pi

R.Hasika - a precise and compact robot base (rpi)

A retropie/emulation station project with a Super Nintendo housing.

Raspberry Pi Zero/Super Nintendo Cart Mod

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PiZero+CustomAccessPoint+CaptivePortal+AudioStreaming+PiFM+Voip in a wallet. Cash, Cache and Content. (optional Solar Charger)

PiFold

Make a case for your Pi Zero out of rubbish.

zeroCase

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An Android app which shows the pits and speed bumps in roads while driving through GPS and gives a voice command about the obstacle.

obstacle observer

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Raspberry Pi Zero-based emulator in an NES controller case. Powered by LiPo battery and Adafruit Boost Charger.

NESPi Controller

Adding text alerts to a wireless doorbell using a Raspberry Pi Zero and a GSM module

Text me when you get here

A rotary POV display using the Pi Zero.

piPOV

r0ck candy is a social, portable pirate radio station stuffed in a candy container

r0ck candy Pirate Radio

A Fluke digital logging multimeter costs around 900$ . Costly affair indeed right? So I have planed to make a aRaspchap multimeter (read on)

aRaspchap multimeter

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The most portable way to play LÖVE, PICO-8, Scratch or your favorite emulated games. Powered by RetroArch!

Gamegirl: the retro console done right

David Perrenoud

Ambient lighting using a Raspberry Pi and recycled monitors

Raspberry Pi Video Wall

You can't call yourself an uber geek until you've tried to become a cyborg.

Wearable HUD / HMD

This is a project of how to automate beekeeping, and take decisions on where to keep your hives for better honey harvesting.

Raspberry Pi Web Application for Beekeeping

Make a compact USB attached character display using a Pi Zero and any HD44780 based display module.

pi2hd44780

A Li-Ion charger for Solar or USB with PMIC/RTC, 5V boost converter and USB Hub that can run Linux for only $5 more!

"Solar Pi Platter"

Monitor use and charge state of a RV or boat house battery

LiFePO4 House Battery Monitor

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A Raspberry Pi powered Radar for bicycles

PiBidar - Pi Bicycle Radar

Mitchell Wong Ho

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Add an old SDRAM DIMM to your SBC for a 133MS/s 32-bit Logic Analyzer, add ADCs for a Scope...

sdramThingZero - 133MS/s 32-bit Logic Analyzer

Wanted to have portable linux access in my office with touch screen, wifi, keyboard and mouse input and usb.

Pi Zero 7" Portable

This is a control application using telegrom bot api and rpi. With this application you can control your devices or read sensors data

Telegram Control Application With Raspberry Pi

erhanyilmaz.ytu

Turning one of my old favorite toys from my childhood into a raspberry pi zero based internet controlled robot.

Retrofit Robot

Audio Games for the Visually Impaired. No screen? No Problem!

MindGames

This project uses an RPi Zero+usb hub+webcam to measure and broadcast the water level of office water bottles

The office water bottle meter

Mauro Pichiliani

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This is an Arduino Uno with a DHT11 temp/humidity sensor with and LCD screen powered by a power bank.

Portable Arduino Uno Temperature and Humidity Sens

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I've decided to build a set of clocks to keep time on all 8 of the planets.

a clock for all planets

shane kirkbride

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WiFi networked electro-mechanical 7x7 pixel flip-dot displays as giant DMDs (Digital Micromirror Devices) for low resolution projection

Networked Low Resolution DMD Projectors

I am trying to build an electric cruiser board for a fun light and fast way to commute with smallish hills and roads.

EV cruiser board

OMG you can "bare-metal" Pi's??? What to do...?

Operation: Try to Bare-Metal the Pi

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Codename Hardpass: A Password Manager on the Raspberry Pi Zero...suffering featuritis.

RPi Zero WiFi-Enabled Hardware Password Manager

32x32 pixel photo&video Raspberry Pi based (tablet-like) camera

PiXel camera

aleksey.grishchenko

Using a Raspberry Pi Zero, I hope to build a handheld DOSBox gaming platform.

Handheld Raspberry Pi Zero DOSBox Emulator

USB-less WiFi for the PiZero (and others)

Yet Another (PiZero) Wi-Fi 'Hat'

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this is the new way for desktop to be used in new way as we are in 21st centuary and we are now also using desktop in old

Zesktop

inboxsahil.sahajpal

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IOT temperature controlled LED light frame.

Bytebox

Open vehicle kit for car lovers converting to electric or just updating a classic , can bus operation and integration of lights , doors ect.

V.I.K. Vehicle Interface Kit

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Design of a UV printer for making exposures of Alternative Photography prints, direct from a digital image

Direct UV Printer for Alternative Photography

PIR Sensor with Push Notifications to Smartphone

Similar to the vga666 board, but re-designed for the Pi Zero.

Super low cost VGA output for the Pi Zero

Control your smarthome devices using FLOSS

Libre Smart Home

yet another portable console! ;-) roughly the size of a gameboy micro, with a 2.2" display

PiBoy-Zero

Real-time voice communications over a local area network to rescue lost, injured and distressed minecraft players and their belongings.

Minecraft Rescue Radio

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8-channel (BBQ)-Thermometer hooked to your WLAN

BBQ WLAN Thermometer

A wireless nautical chart plotter based on a Raspberry Pi and a sunlight readable screen.

Pi Chart

Clueless, broken robots thrive on Genetic Algorithms and Procedural Generation

IQ Zero: Evolving Unprogrammed Robots

Die, Master Monkey!

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Standalone or network camera based on a Raspberry Pi A+

SauronPi - autonomous Raspi camera

Two channel analog input for the Pi Zero for under a dollar.

analog2pi

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Project is about real-time object detection and tracking method which uses CCTV camera to identify and track the target real time.

Surveillance using tracking and targeting

Pi Zero WiFi Backpack for WS281x LED Matrices

WiFi Aurora

arduino + dhf 11 + python + php + rgbled = quite useful humidity manager

Too simple but effective websurfeced Humidity-Sens

This small project demonstrates how a Rasberry Pi and an Atlas Scientific pH sensor upload measurements to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Ras-pHerry: Wireless pH IoT Device

shane kirkbride

A handheld pi project!

Pasty Zero

A dual antenna WiFi and Bluetooth adapter for the Raspberry Pi Zero with Wireless Display capabilities.

Pi TV Stick

A telepresence robot with a Pi Zero for the brains

Treep-flo-treep

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Build your own DIY Point of Sale using a Raspberry Pi ZERO/a+/b/b+/2 with a mini thermal receipt printer and IoT funtions.

IotPOS a Point of Sale for Raspberry Pi

Hiram Villarreal

Had to have a Pi Zero in the van! So for now this one displays visualisations via rca to my screen in the van!

Pi Zero for the Van

Monitor the vitals of your garden. Let the water flow if thirsty.

PiZero Garden Monitor

Using a Pi Zero, I want to create a cheap keyboard interface and graphics card for my RC2014 homebrew computer

$5 Graphics Card For Homebrew Z80

I built a router out of parts I found in my dorm room. And added a LCD.

Codename Luftinternet: Raspberry Router

I set out to build a RPi radio with bluetooth and aux inputs that simply switched between the stations I programmed into it.

Cathedral Raspberry Pi Internet Radio

Tells temp, heat index and dew point in f and c. has humidity % plus time and date.. barometric pressure coming soon.

Home Weather

A portable retro game emulator inside a tin.

Tin PiBoy

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TCD1304-based linear CCD module driven by a Nucleo F401RE + Raspberry Pi.

Linear CCD module

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A Raspberry Pi based Portrait ANSI Art Scroller using Linux and Python

pyANS a RaspBerry Pi ANSI Art Scroller

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

For Pi Day 2016, I’ll demonstrate how to flash a Snap Circuits LED with the Kano Computer

Pi Day 2016 Project

Led clock with a Raspberry Pi web radio

TimeArc

Make your grill smart with ble enabled multi probe grilling grate temperature sensors and tie that data to an app to make you an expert.

bluLogi BraiN

Retrofitting a Raspberry Pi Zero inside the housing of the original Gameboy.

Raspberry Pi Zero/Gameboy DMG-01 Mod

JavaFX Based StarWars Clock on SPI Display.

Rpi Zero StarWars Clock

A very low cost robot using an A+/Zero, 28BYJ-48 Steppers, ULN2003 Drivers and ultrasonic distance sensor

LJBot 0.5 A 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Robot

A simple PS/2 keyboard interface for the Pi Zero.

ps2pi

this is a project that assist visually impaired people to read anywhere they would like, with the help of a portable, cost effective device.

Braille reader

Zero Pi lacks some connectivities? Why not add the ability to send SMS using an old Nokia 3310?

Real SMS for Zero Pi

The 2016 Hackaday Prize

R-Kade zGO + Raspberry Pi Zero + LCD = Portable Gaming System

R-Kade zGO

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R.Ian is meant so be simple to build but have interesting capabilities useful for teaching programming

R.Ian, simple and easy built robot for education

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Start from 0 to other raspberry pies (1,2,3..)

Port Tizen to Raspberry Pi Zero

A battery-operated Pi Zer0, WiFi and a 1 TB hard disk - carry your data and streams with you to munch on the go.

Cloud Zero

Kumar, Abhishek

Uses a PiZero,Thermo sensor,Neopixel Ring and AdafruitIO to sense & report fever status so kids can stay home from school & build more gear.

The Fever Tracker

Just a PiZero Pocket Computer case, with ability to plug any available Monitor (Component Video, HDMI, LCD) and a keyboard via USB HUB

Pi ZERO Arduino programming station

Recycled homage to the home computers of the 1980's

PiBoard

USB hub, wide range power supply, protoboard and din rail enclosure for the Raspberry Pi Zero

Raspberry Pi Zero cap rail enclosure

Simple, not basic.

MPi3 - RPiZero-Based MP3 player/camera.

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Portable recording studio.

piStudio

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LiFePO4 battery / UPS / power manager for Raspberry Pi

LiFePO4wered/Pi

Patrick Van Oosterwijck

OLED screen to display info (i.e. weather) teamed up with a ws2812 led ring for glanceable status. Also a shutdown and reset button

rpi_status

A personal wearable activity tracker featuring a GPS, accelerometer, pressure sensor, wifi (ESPxx) and LCD display.

Hiking assistant

Raspberry Pi Zero Ledstrip Controller to control a RGB ledstrip via the browser of your phone or pc.

Raspberry Pi Zero Ledstrip Controller

Marcel Brouwers

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An interactive device for helping a kindergarten class learn to play harmonica.

Classroom music teaching aid

Modular design, small footprint Pi Zero Supercomputer

8 Leaf Pi Zero Bramble

Soft-e-Safe RPi0 Power Switch protects your Raspberry Pi Zero files from the corruption that can occur during power loss.

Soft-e-Safe RPi0 Power Switch

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Just in case you wanted to play your old games inside an old Gameboy

DMG-32

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An IoT device that displays the weather, news, time, and can play music: all on a beautiful, clean interface

Juliet Magic Mirror

Transparent Rapid Extrusion Pen (free hand stereo-lithography)

T-REx Pen

Amos Manneschmidt

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The system remotely controls the heat by turning it on/off from any location and remotely irrigates my plants when I leave on holidays.

Heating and Irrigation Home Control System

A Zero Pi installed at the top of most famous mountains that log weather infos and collect trekkers opinions through an internal app

Mountain top book

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A $200 smart Linux drone with the Pi Zero and the PXFmini autopilot shield.

Pi0drone

Víctor Mayoral Vilches

Using a Raspberry pi b+, a pi-noir cam, a bunch of IR LEDs and a 7" LCD to make a pair of IR goggles. Perfect for night vision...

IR Raspberry Pi Goggles

A web enabled door unlocker that also accepts pin pad entry.

DIY Web/pinpad door unlocker

Edison Orellana

The 2015 Hackaday Prize

To go where no Rice dorm has gone before: Automated Lighting n' Stuff

Rice Ridiculously Automated Dorm (RRAD!)

Affordable quadruped robot powered by a Pi Zero

Tote Zero

Radomir Dopieralski

Interface a Pi Zero directly to a Commodore 64 via User Port and IEC. Give your C64 a Linux upgrade.

Raspberry Pi Zero / Commodore 64 Interface Board

Leif Bloomquist

An Autonomous Vehicle Controller Based on the Raspberry Pi Zero

PiUAV LiDAR RTK GNSS Autopilot

Pi 2 raspberry pi arcade running retro pi

Raspberry pi arcade

Build a project for the Adafruit Pi Zero contest. Still throwing around ideas

Pi Zero something

One mans quest to spend less time in the basement

Monitoring washing machines

The laptop I made “The Pi-Berry Laptop” is built around the Raspberry Pi 2. It has 1GB RAM, Quad core CPU, 4 USB Ports and One Ethernet port

Pi-Berry Laptop-- The Classic DIY laptop

Sahas Dinesh Chitlange

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Swarm-bots is composed of number of similar bots, called s-bots, . The Swarm-bot is provided with self-assembling capabilities.

Swarm Bots: Assembly and Co-operative Transport

Looking for feedbacks and comments.

Endurance is open source for SelfieBot.

georgefomitchef

Cat Exploit is focussed on creating an independent WiFi network based on urban animals wearing minified wardriving servers.

Cat Exploit

This is Amazon's Alexa running on a Raspberry Pi Zero built into a mid-century modern intercom for your desk.

Retro Echo - Pi Zero Assistant

Chris Broughton

Multi-device streaming sound synchronization for home/apt.

PiZero Synchronized Sound Distribution

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Wreck it Ralph, making the magic happen for real.

Wreck it Ralph Raspberry Pi project.

Simple theremin + poti + servo + MPU6050 + arduino = awesome sound effect

Singing Lightsaber

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Design for compact cluster and case that can be used for housing up to 5x Raspberry Pi2, Pi3 or Odroid XU4 (SoC) computer nodes.

Raspberry Pi 2/3 and Odroid XU4 5x compact cluster

A powerful, inexpensive, and extensible tactical sailing computer

Mr. Gibbs

A Pi Zero portable using the DPI interface.

palmPi

I'm watching you while you sleep : )

"Little Raspberry" watching You!

Mateusz Formicki

I wanted a really mobile setup to measure the RSSI for our installations of muenchen.freifunk.net. It should be easy to carry and easy to us

RSSI mapper for muenchen.freifunk.net

CAN bus connected, car dashboard run by a PiZero that uses a 12” screen and 16" center touchscreen to customize the driving experience.

Custom Car Dashboard and Entertainment System

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Fast RPi WiFi without USB

RPi WiFi

Slowly putting together a portable sdr with a pi for fun.

Raspberry Py SDR

Rasberry Pi Zero Equip with a set of Rage Sensing for Safe Driving in Heavy Fog

See In The Fog Pi ( SITF-Pi )

Yes! You can now have "Alexa" do what you want, when you want, by using a Raspberry Pi.

Amazon Echo Voice Command Automation

Let's stick a games console in a NES controller. That sounds like a good plan.

Zero Entertainment System

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A simple punched card reader to teach kids about data encoding, number systems, and binary numbers

Binary Punched Card Reader

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A Pi-powered sports tracking device using a GPS Module, that allows a user to see their journey on a touch display.

SportTrax

Paper lanterns illuminated by programmable RGB LEDs (Neopixels), controlled by a Raspberry Pi.

RPi-Neo-Lanterns

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A mobile text scanner/reader for people with severe visual impairments

TextEye: Raspberry Pi (Zero) Mobile Textreader

Markus Dieterle

A PiZero in a mint box that can be used to extend or share a wifi or wired connection.

Portable R2D2 raspi wifi bridge

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Remotely turn on/off your PC using a Raspberry Pi

PC Power

Implemented a radio stream recorder with a Raspberry Pi. Show how to find stations, schedule recordings, move files and edit audio files.

Radio Stream Recorder

Bring you own Pi Zero, docking onto the station, exchanging messages with other Pi Zero.

Bring your own PiZero: BYOP

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DISPENSER V5 for Manual solder Paste application (without compressed air) to PCB for reflow soldering or Hot-Air Soldering techniques.

Solder Paste Dispenser V5 - AIR FREE & 5V USB-NEW!

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A heating system based on the Raspberry pi to control relays and valves.

Raspberry Pi Heating System

Somebody must be able to hear a Pi Zero on the other side of the world!

The Australia Project

Vintage phones repurposed to communicate through Tox

ToxPhone

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7" fully functional Pi Zero tablet with GPIO access, 6-8 hours of work time

Pi Tab (7")

"The missing power button of the Raspberry Pi"

Raspberry Pi Bake-Off

Use an analog micro-ammeter as an inexpensive output device for the Pi Zero.

pi2meter

Streaming a record player over the network

Pi Record Streamer

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Control a HDMI switch with your Raspberry Pi and watch something interesting during TV ads.

Tecedi SmartZap: Adblock for TV

It can power the Raspberry Pi Zero over Ethernet. The board also adds an Ethernet Phy to the Raspberry Pi Zero to give you full Ethernet

PoEPi: Pi Zero Power over Ethernet with PHY

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R-Kade Zero + Raspberry Pi Zero = Tiny Video Gaming System

R-Kade Zero

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The purpose of the this project is to create an inexpensive way for anyone to use the internet anonymously from any device, anywhere.

Portable RasPi Tor Router

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Use control algorithms to predict movement and control a amateur rocket by the use of active fin stabilization

Active Stabilized Rocket System

This project replaces the paper on the back of a restroom door with an RPi Zero to make easier the control of restroom maintenace

Restroom maitenance log automation

Mauro Pichiliani

2-channel simultaneous AD/DA conversion with up to 1 MSamp/s

Raspberry Pi High-Speed AD/DA

Alpha, Echo, Charlie less then a Samsung Galaxy Mobile it is a "U. S. AIR-FORCE" Gen Allen Salmon's Personal Cellphone. -(American Military)

Operation Tango Charlie

Mr Debbie Cavalier

This project is a photo finish sytem buit with a RPi Zero+Webcam to find the winner and the velocity of cars in a pinewood derby contest

Pinewood derby photo finish

Mauro Pichiliani

A plug-n-play 4 port USB hub for the Pi Zero - No soldering required! Also provides a power source for the Pi

PiAngle Zero - Not just another Pi Zero USB Hub

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Taking all the sensors I have accumulated over the years and hooking them into a Pi.

Sensor Overlord

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Talking interface controlling a DSLR camera for astronomy photos

Talking Time Lapse Camera Control for Astronomy

Who needs instructions when you have Adafruit?

Rossum

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Battery powered wireless UART Terminal for your Pi Zero(and others)

Blueberry Zero - Keep your Pi in your Pocket