Hackster’s Handpicked Projects of the Week

A Motion-Tracking Nerf Turret, a MIDI Reed Organ, an Automatic Guitar Tuner, an Alexa-Controlled Cocktail Machine + More

Hackster Staff
Aug 25, 2017 · 4 min read

Raspberry Pi Motion Tracking Gun Turret

A motion tracking airsoft or Nerf gun turret with autonomous and manual operation modes, controlled by a Raspberry Pi.

Bluetooth MIDI-Operated Antique Reed Organ

Antique reed organ + solenoids + custom driver boards + 3 Arduino Megas + Bluetooth = MIDI-driven reed organ

Interactive LED Table for 50€

Make an interactive table that displays games, audio spectrum, and animations on a 12x12 built-in LED matrix.

Arduino-Based Automatic Guitar Tuner

This Arduino-based tuner uses Simulink to get audio input from an electric guitar and then tune each string based on this input.

DIY $7 Audio DAC HAT for Pi

Make your own DAC HAT for Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi Zero W that has a headphone jack and 3W stereo speaker out.

Horus: The Weather Station

A Raspberry Pi-based weather station that measures temperature, humidity and pressure using the Astro Pi Sense HAT and uploads the data.

SmileBackPi

SmileBackPi is a simple Windows 10 IoT project that combines motion, video and Microsoft Cognitive services.

New MATRIX Creator Weather App on Eclipse Day

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for locating your general location to give you information about the weather via a series of LED animations on a Raspberry Pi with a MATRIX Creator.

HID Attack Over WiFi Using Arduino MKR1000

Arduino MKR1000 as a HID, for performing HID penetration testing over WiFi networks.

Simple Weather Station with Amazing Web Monitoring

Do you want see from anywhere what is the temperature, pressure and humidity in your house? If yes, this project will show you how to do it.

IMU (BNO055) 3D Visualization Using CC264BPA-RUNN

A simple step-by-step guide for extracting and displaying IMU 3D rotation using Python. No Arduino or other MCU firmware programming needed!

DIY Patient Thermometer for Healthcare Training

DIY thermometer, IR remote controlled. Nine different temperatures. For use in healthcare simulation training. Cost-effective solution.

Cocktail Machine with Alexa and PHPoC

Ask Alexa to make a cocktail you want. Recipes are included in PHPoC script.

WiFi Marquee Scroller

An “anywhere” LED Matrix sign that you can setup with a mobile device. Uses ESP8266

Alexa — NodeMCU: WeMo Emulation Made Simple

In the home automation space, Alexa can interact with several different devices as Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, SmartThings, etc. In our case, we will emulate the WeMo, using the fauxmoESP library.

Arduinomated Car Parking with Voice Assistance

Make an assistant that tells you about how much to drive backwards without any collision through your smartphone by Arduino and 1Sheeld.

Interactive Bike Motion and Light Display

Flashy LED decor lights that respond to your bike’s motion.

Bluetooth Control Multitap

This is a multi-tap that can be linked to a smartphone and Bluetooth to control the supply of electricity to a smartphone.

Arduino — Web-Based Car Race Brick Game

Relax with the 90’s car race brick game on Arduino.

WiFi Strength Meter

A meter that indicates the Wi-Fi signal strength in an intuitive way, using the parts I had on hand.

LED Roulette Game

A fun pocket-sized travel game for any age. Try your luck and make the light stop on the green LED.

E-Ink Display Based Static Desktop eCalendar

An electronic desktop calendar based on an E-ink display controlled by TM4C123 Tiva(ARM) development board and programmed in Energia IDE.

DIY Bitcoin Lottery with Raspberry Pi

Bitcoin is in the news again… so I made this fun little device that will never actually make money (unless you are lucky!).

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