The Volvo Ocean Race is held every three years and covers 45,000 nautical miles in 10 legs. Starting in Alicante, Spain and finishing in The Hague, Netherlands, it takes around nine months to complete with gaps in between legs –…
Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
Paul Weeks has set up his Raspberry Pi to do data analysis on football results and other statistics. His first post dealt with setting up his Raspberry Pi for the job, including installing various software packages. His second post is all…
Sometimes all you want it a database set-up and access to it via an administration interface. Well, Gus over at pimylifeup.com has written a tutorial that might be of interest. In it, he shows you how to install popular database engine MySQL…
Jeremy Morgan has recently been tinkering with a bunch of sensors attached to a Raspberry Pi, out of which he has made a ‘weather station‘. The station measures temperature (several different ways!), humidity, barometric (atmospheric) pressure and light levels/luminosity (lux). He…
Carsten Mönning over at the SAP Community Network has written the start of an intriguing series of blog posts on creating a Hadoop cluster with several Raspberry Pi 2s. This initial post just covers setting up Hadoop on a single…
Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…
Brandon Van Ryswyk and Daniel Chin have just finished building a 32-node DataStax Enterprise cluster running on Raspberry Pis. It’s being used to demonstrate the fault-tolerant nature of Cassandra by letting visitors to their lobby take down a ‘data centre’ with…
Luke Maxwell from QueryClick has written an interesting piece about how his company used a Raspberry Pi, MySQL, SQLAlchemy and some Python scripts to automate client reporting. Read it here.
Chris Mobberley has been looking at PostgreSQL and has found a simple way to get up-and-running. Read about it here
