Steve Hickson has blogged about, and released the code for, his speech control software. It uses the Google voice API and you basically say “Pi”, wait for a confirmation and then tell it what to do. There’s a video and…
Category: Home automation
Change the colour of Will’s #RaspberryPi desk
Great Internet of Things project from William Wnekowicz – you control the colour of his desk area at some date in the future by choosing from a colour wheel. It’s all powered on a Raspberry Pi running PHP and Python scripts…
PiPurr – Remote Cat Interaction Server with a #RaspberryPi
Here’s a cute post from Tris on the Can’t Hack Won’t Hack blog. He’s developing a cat tending machine with a Raspberry Pi to include a webcam and treat dispenser (and more) to monitor his cats when he’s on holiday.…
#RaspberryPi Home Alarm System by pistuffing
Andy Baker from pistuffing.co.uk has shot a video that demonstrates his prototype for a home alarm system driven by a Raspberry Pi. At the moment, it’s a proof-of-concept involving a Pi, a passive infrared detector and a buzzer. via RaspberryPi Home…
Control water consumption from a #RaspberryPi
M2M Application Platform Carriots has written a tutorial about a water consumption meter involving their software, a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Read the tutorial here
@Raspberry_Pi inside a retro dial phone
Logic Ethos have interfaced an old rotary telephone to a Raspberry Pi. They’ve not taken the project to it’s logical conclusion (actually making calls) but they’ve got the Pi inside the phone and have it running a ‘test ringing’ program.…
#RaspberryPi controlled water bath cooks the best Roast Beef ever / @Raspberry_Pi
Chris Swan has been experimenting with a Raspberry Pi-controlled water bath cooker and has just finished munching on the “Best Roast Beef ever” – a tri-tip cut of meat. Read more here
#RaspberryPi controlled sous vide water bath
Chris Swan has been using the Easter weekend to work on a Raspberry Pi-controlled sous vide water bath. He’s used a radio controlled mains socket from Maplin and a Github project called Raspberry Stroganoff to make it happen. Read more about…
#RaspberryPi powered Cat Feeder
Hack Factory member “Videoman” has created a cat feeder with a Raspberry Pi brain to automatically dispense cat food. Read all about it here
Siri-like voice chat with #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Martin, at harizanov.com has been experimenting with voice recognition on the Raspberry Pi and parsing input intelligently using a variety of software including arecord, ffmpeg, Google Voice and WolframAlpha. He has included detailed instructions on how to get this working. So…