This intriguing Adafruit tutorial, written with George Brower, has you creating a door sensor using a Pi and a PIR sensor which applauds you when you enter and boos when you leave, thanks to the built-in speaker. Read the tutorial
Category: Home automation
#RaspberryPi Wireless Inventors Kit (RasWIK) from Ciseco
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to Ciseco apart from having met representatives from the company at a Jam. I had the great pleasure of meeting Miles Hodkinson and Rebecca Smith from Ciseco at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on 20th July.…
Rescued pet bird gets a #RaspberryPi powered surveillance system
Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully…
Tweeting coffee machine using #RaspberryPi
Martin Harizanov wanted his Raspberry Pi to tweet whenever his coffee machine was ready to be used. So, he decided to use a light-dependent resistor to monitor the ‘ready’ LED on the coffee machine. It’s a bit low-tech in that…
Playing music on a #RaspberryPi using UPnP and DLNA
Stephen Phillips has written an extensive blog post on how to set your Pi up to play music using a networked hard drive and a mobile app to control it. Read about it here
Radio Pi driven by #RaspberryPi
Afraid I haven’t got a name for the author of this one, but it’s over on tweetypi.co.uk. Here’s a nice little project – a birthday present. It’s an internet-enabled wireless radio made out of a LEES draught bitter box! Inside…
New products from Pimoroni and ModMyPi for the #RaspberryPi
Just a quick round-up of some new products for the Pi. I have no affiliation to either supplier and haven’t received any review products – just doing a quick summary for those who like buying bits! Gooseneck Camera Mount First…
Lincoln University’s #RaspberryPi powered digital garden
The Foundation have just posted about the Gold Medal winning garden from Lincoln University that was presented at the Chelsea Flower Show. This remarkable project changed shape and configuration depending on Tweets and was powered by a Raspberry Pi. Read the…
Find out who is ringing your doorbell by email with a #RaspberryPi
Martin over at harizanov.com has hacked into a wireless doorbell and used his Raspberry Pi to take a picture of the person ringing the doorbell and then sending an email notification, including the picture. This project requires some soldering and electronics…
The #RaspberryPi Microwave
Nathan Broadbent has built a Raspberry Pi into his microwave. It scans the normal barcode of a product, looks it up on an online database and this dictates the cooking instructions. It also allows voice commands and tweets when it’s…