I suppose you could call this SiriPi or RaspberrySiri. Oscar Liang has done an in-depth tutorial for getting voice recognition working on your Pi. Read the tutorial here
Category: Home automation
#RaspberryPi NAS with two 1TB drives
Erik Russell has been working on setting up a massive NAS box powered by a Raspberry Pi for network storage and backup purposes. He takes us through the process and points out some of the implications and pitfalls of using…
PrivateEyePi launches home alarm system project for the #RaspberryPi
Gadjet Nut has announced a new Home Alarm System project on his website, PrivateEyePi. The site features all the information required to wire up and program the alarm system, so take a look. Read all about it
Automate plant tending with PiPlanter and a #RaspberryPi
Devon at esologic.com has created a system to maintain, monitor and tend his plants, more specifically the moisture level in the soil. He has written an extensive (and I mean really extensive) blog post on the project including code that will take…
Solar powered #RaspberryPi
An enterprising hacker has set his Model B Raspberry Pi up to be powered by solar panels. Read all about how he did it by seeing his website that is hosted on the Pi. So far, it’s been up a massive 143…
Use Zoneminder on the #RaspberryPi with the camera module
Over on the Foundation forum, a chap called ‘jimmyst’ has been working on getting Linux-based security surveillance software Zoneminder to work with the Raspberry Pi camera module. Here’s what he wrote… Here is some progress I made on using Raspberry Pi…
The Foundation get a cloud-enabled #RaspberryPi controlled coffee machine (updated: Build your own!)
Thanks to a generous gift from US-based company Zipwhip, the Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a coffee machine. But this is no ordinary coffee machine, Oh No! This one can be texted when coffee is needed and then sends a…
Simple two-way NFC/RFID communications with #RaspberryPi and Adafruit
Adafruit has just published a guide to doing NFC/RFID communications with their breakout board. Read the guide
#RaspberryPi bird box with BBC Springwatch
Dr Andrew Robinson has written a blog post about how they’ve used the Raspberry Pi to monitor visits to a bird box and various environmental conditions. He’s hoping to publish instructions on how to set it up so that others…
#RaspberryPi Home Energy Monitor
Steve Swindley has created a household energy monitor from a Raspberry Pi, a Current Cost ENVI and an LED Borg from PiBorg. It’s all controlled with Python. Read more about how he did it here