What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

If you have a small pet such as a hamster, gerbil, or mouse that needs feeding on a daily basis, you may be interested in a new Raspberry Pi project by Explaining Computers. This innovative project ...

Here’s a neat little Raspberry Pi project: a pet door which uses facial recognition to control which animals get into your house. Attached to a regular cat or dog door, this system uses motion sensors ...

If you’ve ever been plagued by the sound of your barking dog, or woken early in the morning to let the pup out in the yard, you could use a Raspberry Pi bark-activated door, just like the one this man ...

Before the Commodore 64 or Apple II, there was the Commodore PET 8032, the first personal computer available to the general public. It had a 1 MHz processor, support for up to 8KB of RAM, and a ...

Thanks to Adafruit for flagging this one: a home-built (physical) virtual pet, using a Raspberry Pi. The Gadget Master Supreme is Will Cogley and as well as building the manoeuvrable device he is also ...

When it comes to DIY maker technology, few bits of hardware have had the versatility and outright longevity of the Raspberry Pi. Launched in 2012, the Raspberry Pi is a silent, energy-efficient, ...

When it comes to DIY maker technology, few bits of hardware have had the versatility and outright longevity of the Raspberry Pi. Launched in 2012, the Raspberry Pi is a silent, energy-efficient, ...