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Boomy Pi Airplay Boombox

Stream Airtunes to Boomy!

by Ruiz Brothers

Use an Raspberry Pi Zero W and Adafruit's Speaker Bonnet to make an all-in-one portable AirTunes BoomBox!

Read-Only Raspberry Pi

Avoid SD card corruption when powering off

by Phillip Burgess

Most microcontroller projects have an on/off switch or some quick way to cut power, while computers like the Raspberry Pi require an orderly shutdown procedure…otherwise the SD card may become corrupted and the system will no longer boot. But what if there was a way?

Haunted Portrait

Make a spooky digital portrait come to life with a Raspberry Pi Zero image player

You can frame an LCD panel and mount it vertically to create a spooky, digital portrait, that seems to have an afterlife of it's own, as the eyes subtly move or the expression changes. This digital picture frame is easy to set up, and fun to use to haunt your friends and unsuspecting guests.

AdaBox 005

Explore and use the contents of your AdaBox 005

by Tyler Cooper

You've consumed four AdaBoxes - the equivalent of a delicious, nutritious meal of DIY electronics. And now it's time for dessert. Pour yourself some coffee (or a nice cold glass of milk) because it is finally time for Raspberry Pi.

Adafruit PiUART - USB Console and Power Add-on for Raspberry Pi

Power! Data! Pi Time!

The PiUART adds a MicroUSB to serial connection so you can use any serial port software to connect to the Pi's console. It plugs in and is fast and easy to add whenever you need to connect to your Pi. You can power your Pi through the microUSB port and then use the switch whenever you want to cut power, without having to unplug the cable.

Pi Hole Ad Blocker with Pi Zero W

Zap away ads using an ad-blocking custom DNS mini server

This project will turn your Raspberry Pi Zero W into an ad-blocking local DNS server with Pi Hole. When it is asked for the IP address of ads.adserver.com (for example) it will return nothing! So you will never even connect to the ad server and get the ad. Your connection will be faster, less data, and no intrusive ads. It works great on computers, tablets, phones, etc. Even if you cannot run an ad-blocker plugin on your phone or tablet, this will work and ad-blocker-detectors can't tell you're running it.

NES Cart RetroPie Game Console

All-in-one game emulator/controller built inside a NES cartridge using Joy Bonnet and Raspberry Pi Zero!

The Pi Zero is a great machine, capable of running RetroPie to manage old school game emulation. The Joy Bonnet is a very simple, plug-and-play way to add just the right controls. But you need a case, so embed it in an old cartridge for style and the ergonomics of a better grip!

Adafruit 128x64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

A little monochrome OLED bonnet for yer Pi

If you'd like a compact display, with buttons and a joystick - we've got what you're looking for. The Adafruit 128x64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi is the big sister to our mini PiOLED add-on. This version has 128x64 pixels (instead of 128x32) and a much larger screen besides. With the OLED display in the center, we had some space on either side so we added a 5-way joystick and two pushbuttons. Great for when you want to have a control interface for your project.

Adafruit PiOLED - 128x32 Mini OLED for Raspberry Pi

The most compact lil' display for a Raspberry Pi

The Adafruit PiOLED is your little OLED pal, ready to snap onto any and all Raspberry Pi computers, to give you a little display. The PiOLED comes with a monochrome 128x32 OLED, with sharp white pixels. The OLED uses only the I2C pins so you have plenty of GPIO connections available for buttons, LEDs, sensors, etc. It's also nice and compact so it will fit into any case.

Raspberry Pi Zero Headless Quick Start

Give your Pi Zero or Zero W the spark of new life.

by Carter Nelson

Starting with a fresh image of Raspbian Jessie Lite burned onto an SD card, learn how to configure Pi Zero settings by directly editing a few files before first boot. The basic setup for using a USB console cable for troubleshooting is also discussed.

Adafruit Joy Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

The cutest little gaming helper ever

by Phillip Burgess

Pocket-sized fun is the name of this game, with the Joy Bonnet - our most fun Bonnet ever (no we didn't even think that was possible, either!) This Bonnet fits perfectly on top of your Raspberry Pi Zero (any kind) and gives you adorable hand-held arcade controls. Once you install our script onto your Pi, the controls will act like a keyboard, for easy use with any emulator or media player.

Adafruit Arcade Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

A tiny emulator helper

by Phillip Burgess

Playing retro games is easy on a Raspberry Pi - and the pocket computer is pretty good at it too! All you need is a little help to connect buttons and a joystick up and you can custom design your own arcade console, desktop or stand-up machine, even just a simple controller box. It makes for a fun weekend project that will last all year. This Adafruit Arcade Bonnet is designed to make small emulator projects a little easier to build. Here's what you can look forward to!

Animated Snake Eyes Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

The world's most esoteric Pi accessory?

by Phillip Burgess

The Snake Eyes Bonnet is a Raspberry Pi accessory for driving two 128x128 pixel OLED or TFT LCD displays, and also provides four analog inputs for sensors. It's perfect for making cosplay masks, props, spooky sculptures for halloween, animatronics, robots...anything where you want to add a pair of animated eyes!

Digital Free Library

Share books with a WiFi access point.

by Kirby Griese

The Digital Free Library is a WiFi access point that will let you share digital content from a Raspberry Pi Zero

Adafruit Speaker Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

This Bonnet uses I2S a digital sound standard, so you get really crisp audio. The digital data goes right into the amplifier so there's no static like you hear from the headphone jack. And it's super easy to get started. Just plug in any 4 to 8 ohm speakers, up to 3 Watts, run our installer script on any Raspberry Pi, reboot and you're ready to jam!

Raspberry Pi Pokemon Finder

by Ruiz Brothers

Use a Pi Zero to help you find rare Pokémon.

Raspberry Pi Wearable Time Lapse Camera

Tiny Computer, Tiny Camera

by Phillip Burgess

Worn on a lanyard or clipped to a pocket or pack, this adorable camera snaps a photo every few seconds. Slide the SD card into your computer to review the day’s activities or merge all the images into a timelapse animation. Powered by the diminutive and affordable Raspberry Pi Zero, this DIY project is eminently configurable and customizable!

Raspberry Pi Zero NPR One Radio

If you are a NPR nerd, this project is for you.

Fill your house with your favorite NPR shows and stories by building your own NPR radio.

Resizing the Raspberry Pi Boot Partition

Long live Sneakernet!

by Phillip Burgess

Though the Raspberry Pi computer is eminently networkable, some projects still just work best by physically moving the SD card to a desktop system to exchange data…but normally only a small section of the card is accessible to Windows and Mac computers. This guide explains one way of making more space available to both the Pi and other systems.

PiGRRL Zero

Portable RetroPi with the smallest Pi yet

by Ruiz Brothers

Build a small hand-held portable game station with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a 2.2" full color display. This battery-powered kit is 3D printed and made by you!

Networked Thermal Printer using Raspberry Pi and CUPS

Thermal printer results like you’ve never seen…

by Phillip Burgess

Using CUPS — the Common Unix Printing System — turns a lowly thermal receipt printer into a graphic-printing powerhouse.

Turning your Raspberry PI Zero into a USB Gadget

Go Go Gadget Pi Zero

This tutorial is a writeup of how you can follow along and turn your Pi zero into a Usb Serial device or Ethernet device. That's two whole ways of being able to connect to your Pi zero just by plugging in a micro B cable!

Adding Basic Audio Ouput to Raspberry Pi Zero

Get your Pi Zero singing

To keep the Raspberry Pi Zero as low cost and small as possible, the Pi foundation didn't include a 3.5mm audio jack. There's also no breakout pads for the audio output. This made us a little :( at first but then we thought "hey you know, we can probably figure out how to get audio out with a little hacking!

Introducing the Raspberry Pi Zero

65mm x 30mm x 5mm of Pi Power

Wow a new Pi - so exciting! The Pi Zero is the smallest, most affordable Pi ever. Wonder what's new & different? Let's check it out!

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The Adafruit Raspberry Pi Package Repository

Learn how to install the Raspberry Pi packages we have made available on our new Raspbian package repository.

Piezo Ring Tones with Raspberry Pi

Play ringtones with a piezo buzzer on Raspberry Pi.

by Roberto Marquez

The Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins are used to play RTTTL sequences on a piezo buzzer. It is Web enabled and Java-powered. The Web app has built in RTTTL tones, as well as input controls for playing user provided RTTTL tones.

Node.js Embedded Development on the Raspberry Pi

Get you a Pi & write you some javascript!

JavaScript was designed to handle user interaction in a web browser, but what if you could use it to power your hardware projects?

piBeacon - DIY Beacon with a Raspberry Pi

Turn your Rasperry Pi into a Bluetooth LE Beacon Device

by Kevin Townsend

This learning guide will show you everything you need to know to turn your Raspberry Pi into a "Bluetooth LE (BLE) Beacon" device using our Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter and the open source Bluez stack.

Running Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi

Run the popular game Minecraft on you Raspberry Pi.

This tutorial will show you how to install and run Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi.

USB Audio Cards with a Raspberry Pi

Add quality audio input output to your Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi has an on-board audio jack, which is super handy for all kinds of sound effects and speech, just plug and go! However, for when you want better audio for music playback, or you want to record audio...a USB audio card can greatly improve the sound quality and volume, this tutorial will show you how!

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