Hackster’s Handpicked Projects of the Week May 26, 2017

Make your own vintage radio that streams Spotify, Google Play Music, SoundCloud and your own local music!

An FPGA (Lattice iCE40HX4k) development platform that has been designed for use with BeagleBone boards.

Use the PTHAT and wireless Xbox controller to control a Mecanum bot.

A DIY pinball machine kit that can be upgraded digitally with the Arduino 101.

Super secret messaging with PocketC.H.I.P.!

Spice up your poker games with these cool blinking chips. They can be programmed on the fly to have a certain number of the LEDs illuminated to indicate value, or you can have the lights blink in a cool pattern.

Monitor and log water quality (pH & ORP) and temperature from everywhere.

Calling my son from his room using two ESP8266 modules, instead of shouting.

The LEDog Collar lights up when it gets dark, helping you locate your dog from far away.

Locate your Particle boards on a map without needing extra hardware. Use Ubidots or an offline map alternative.

Get messages from a SiPy to your computer via SigFox and Azure IoT Hub.

A candy dispenser running Android Things that exchanges photos for candies. It uses computer vision to classify the image.

A rear bike light that signals turning and stopping, and displays a custom emoji the rest of the time.

Control the terminal window of the Raspberry Pi 3 using an Android phone via SSH.

Trying to give your Alexa skill a little more character? Use Speechcons in a skill to hack the Alexa voice to show a little emotion.

Get started with Pi Zero W without a display. This tutorial helps you to enable SSH, VNC and configure VNC on your smartphone.

Develop a simple yet powerful IoT thermometer using a Zerynth-powered single-board MCU and the Zerynth App.

The cloud switches are well known, but what happens when the local Internet fails and the switch cannot connect to the Internet?