Alex has done a fantastic demo video of his Gertboard and how he can control it using a Wiimote. This is off the back of Matt Hawkins’ work on the Wiimote. Using a Wii controller with your Raspberry Pi, Gertboard,…
Category: Geeky Techiness
Guide to #RaspberryPi status LEDs
Raspberry Pi Spy has done a nice little guide on the LEDs that are located on the Raspberry Pi board near the audio jack. I’m not going to replicate here as I think he deserves the traffic for what is…
Oxford #RaspberryJam Report from DesignSpark
Although I attend the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam regularly, I like to keep an eye out for reports from other Jams. This one: Oxford Raspberry Jam – Jan 2013 » DesignSpark is particularly interesting as it contains details of several…
Garden Railroad controlled with a #RaspberryPi and Wixels / @Raspberry_Pi
Martin Sant has been developing a way to control the points in a garden railroad such that he can use an Android app to determine the route a train will take. I’ll let him describe the set-up: “The technology behind…
#RaspberryPi measures visibility in Central London / @Raspberry_Pi
The Shard is located in London and, at 310 metres (95 storeys), is the tallest building in the European Union. The price of apartments and condos in the building reflect the views they give across the UK capital and are…
#Arduino vs. #RaspberryPi vs. other boards / @Raspberry_Pi
Benjamin Bellamy at Techwatch Keeward has just published a great table of all the technical and capability differences between the following boards: Arduino Uno Arduino Due Raspberry Pi, Model B CubieBoard Gooseberry APC Rock A13 OlinuXino A10 OlinuXino Hackberry A10…
A look at #RaspberryPi to #Arduino communication libraries / @Raspberry_Pi
I’ve been using pyFirmata to power my PiPodCorder project that uses a RaspberryPi and an Arduino to read a load of sensors and display them to an LCD screen. However, I’ve been noticing that there are a few alternatives. I’m…
Guide to #RaspberryPi revisions / @Raspberry_Pi
Thanks to Dom over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation discussion forums, we now have a comprehensive list of all the different versions and revisions of the Pi. You can find out your revision number by going to the command prompt…