There are now over five million Raspberry Pi models out in the wild, and some of the things that you, the Raspberry Pi community, have made with them truly are wild. From elegantly crafted scripts that chain together a series of web services to homebrew Rube Goldberg machines, they are as creative as they are diverse. And through the crowd of new projects bubbling up online every day, if there’s one word that’s guaranteed to get everyone’s attention then it’s the word ‘hack’.
But what exactly is a hack? Well, for the purposes of this feature, we decided that a hack has to have some sort of hardware base. It’s the kind of project where you take one device and, with a little Raspberry Pi magic, transform it into something…