Making

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The secret to getting great performance out of a Raspberry Pi, even an older one like the model 3B+, is to use the lowest screen resolution possible (in addition to the obvious things like enabling hardware GPU acceleration). Using 720p or less leads to really smooth performance and low memory usage even in the heavy Chromium browser. #raspberrypi #diy #hacking #making

Sun 11 August 2024

DIY Raspberry Pi Tablet

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How I built my own Raspberry Pi tablet

Sat 04 July 2020

My work at IBM Research Lab

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I was on the cover of a magazine, thanks to the work being done at IBM Research!

Sat 11 March 2017

Raspberry Pi Star Trek LCARS Interface

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Star Trek LCARS interface implemented on a Raspberry Pi with touch screen, using Python and pygame

Wed 30 March 2016

PiScope

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PiScope is a House4Hack project, presented at ScopeX 2015, to do basic astrophotography using a RaspberryPi, Arduino, 3d-printed parts, and a telescope.

Wed 22 July 2015

Gym Timer

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I built a dead-simple Arduino-based gym timer for my StrongLifts 5x5 routine

Thu 23 April 2015

Beat load-shedding with solar tech

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My simple solar setup has been featured in articles on Fin24 and HTXT.

Mon 23 February 2015

House4Hack smart watch

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We built a smart watch at House4Hack. I decided to re-write the firmware and Android app from scratch.

Thu 28 August 2014

DroidOrb

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I built an Android accessory using an Arduino. It's a charging dock and notification light, among other things.

Tue 16 August 2011

Dual Projector Home Theatre

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In the quest for a mind-blowing home theatre experience, I experimented with two projectors and planned out my custom-built sound system. It turned out better than I thought!

Tue 14 December 2010