Gerardo Capiel has written some code that has the Raspberry Pi make an announcement when the San Francisco Muni bus is coming. Read more and look at the code here
Category: Home automation
Control your home theater with a #RaspberryPi and Pebble Watch
Alex Bain has written a guide to creating a home theatre control system using a Raspberry Pi, a Pebble Watch and an Android Phone. Not enough time to go into more detail – Read more here
Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer
Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. There’s also a great script to monitor a DropBox…
Adding RF capabilities to the #RaspberryPi
Kalle Lofgren has distributed a series of RF receivers throughout his house to do some home automation. He has now set-up a Raspberry Pi as an RF control hub. There are extensive instructions on his blog on how to do…
Play with your cat from work with a #RaspberryPi powered Remote Presence platform
New York-based MadSci is developing a Lab research project to “explore quick, inexpensive and easy deploying of remote-controlled interactions”. The project has been developed with a Raspberry Pi using web socket software Spacebrew Read about this great project over at…
#RaspberryPi Doggie Treat Dispenser
Well-known techie Ben Heck continues to build a dog treat dispenser (with remote controls and webcam) with his Raspberry Pi.
Voice Command v2.0 for the #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has just released the second version of his voice command software in which you can issue voice commands to your Raspberry Pi and have configured actions happen in response. Read more here
Pi-Rex, a bark-activated door opener with the #RaspberryPi
David Hunt has created a mechanism that detects the noise of his dog barking and then opens the back door to allow her to go out for a comfort break. It involves a noise detection circuit, an actuator and a…
Live motion tracking with the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has blogged about a motion tracking experiment developed by Erik Haderup. It “uses a Raspberry Pi to wirelessly transmit live motion tracking data from a set of 13 inertial measurement units”. Read about it and watch a video here
Monitoring your pet’s home life with the #RaspberryPi
Colorado-based hacker Dox has written some Python and teamed it up with a webcam to monitor his pet remotely. The script listens to a specific email account and when a specific email is received it takes a snapshot and emails…