Hackster’s Handpicked Projects of the Week
A Fake/Real CCTV Camera, a Lit Skateboard, a Matchbox-Sized Surveillance System, a Mind-Reading Poetry Device + More
Turn a Fake CCTV Into a Real One with Raspberry Pi & WebRTC
Bring a dummy security camera to life using a Raspberry Pi, WebRTC and balena.
Pixelboard: Skateboard Lighting with NeoPixels
Use Python to program some sweet ground-effect lighting animations for the Hackster Glowboard! Powered by the BBC Micro:bit.
Matchbox-Sized P2P Remote Accessible Camera with ESP32
Make a small, low-cost surveillance camera — including app and device source, with ESP32-CAM or ESP32-EYE + Omnivision camera.
PiJuice NatureJuice Project
Put together the famous NatureBytes Wildlife Cam Case so that it runs a Raspberry Pi completely off grid running off the PiJuice.
WhatsApp Notification Station
Send temperature, humidity and movement information as WhatsApp messages to your phone every half-minute through a webhook via Twilio API.
Park&Go: Smart Parking System for Vehicles
This computer vision-based parking system makes vehicle parking process super easy.
LoRa Tester with LCD & GPS: Open, Configurable, Low-Power
Fully configurable battery-operated LoRa tester with BigClown Maker Kit. You can configure every LoRa parameter and use GPS with TTN Mapper.
Historic Voicebot
Have a chat with your favourite person from the past with the Historic Voicebot!
Spider-Man Mask with Servos and Bluetooth Control
Want a cheap Spider-Man mask that looks cool?
Atari Punk Crab
A 555 timer Atari punk console for all the bleeps and bloops.
Mind Poetry
Read brain waves and prints poetry on a small screen as long as you are focused and concentrated.
Fourier Box
Using a blue laser and phosphorescent paper to illustrate what it means to sketch a sine wave around a circle.
Loyalty Badge Reader: Solving Coffee Conundrum with Ultra96
The office cafe’s stamp cards are easy to lose. This tracks purchases by work ID badge so you don’t miss out on free coffee anymore!
Create an Image Using a Single LED
Use the concepts in light painting to create a machine that can recreate bitmaps with a long-exposure camera via a single LED.
HomeBear. Rainbow — Windows 10 IoT Core + Pimoroni RainbowHAT
Windows 10 IoT Core UWP app that works great with the Pimoroni Rainbow HAT. Simple entry point to start with GPIO, I2C and PWM in C#.
Nixie Tube Watch
Simulate a Nixie tube watch on an ESP32 using the M5Stick-C.
Arduino — Control Position of DC Motor Precisely via Web
Control DC motor using PID controller via web.
Control Your IoT Cloud Kit via Blynk
Use popular Blynk app to control and change the state of your IoT Cloud Kit through your smartphone.
GPS Speedcoach
Designed for crew rowing, this speedcoach is designed to track split times and total meters traveled.
Free Fall Detection Using 3-Axis Accelerometer
The easy method to determine free fall detection with the help of a simple 3-axis accelerometer.
ARMin: Simple Robot Arm Controller Using Python
Control servos/motors connected to an Arduino robot arm kit using a Raspberry Pi, Python, and an Xbox 360 controller.
Smart Switch with Motion Detection Using an ESP-12F
ESP-12F-based smart switch for two relays and motion detection. Two-way operation hard wired + Android app. Voice control also possible.
Owl Barometer
The owl’s eyes move and follow you — and it tells the weather for the next couple of days.
Control RPI from Alexa
Run scripts on Raspberry Pi when voice commands are issued to Alexa. An AWS account is needed but the free tier is used (no cost).
Vectron VR
Vectron VR is a virtual reality peripheral for the Vectron 64 6502 CPU-based breadboard computer.
CodeRcar: The Kid-Friendly 3D-Printable DIY Robot Vehicle
Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W, CodeRCar is an idea — that making your own robot car doesn’t have to be difficult.
