This is the second Harry Potter project in as many days! See yesterday’s Daily Prophet animated picture frame here. Sean O’Brien from Make has taken a Raspberry Pi and a Particle Internet Button and embedded them inside a lamp base. Also…
Nate Welch over at Arkatechture (bet that’s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they’ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect…
The Foundation have just blogged this nice little project from Instructables user DevinL9. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi, hooked it up to a servo and then used the servo to control the position of a small fan with a small webcam mounted…
Jamie Dixon has trouble getting his youngest child out of bed. So, he grabbed hold of an old electric hospital bed that could be triggered to go almost vertical. He hooked it up to a servo and a Raspberry Pi…
Dr Mark Smith has developed a system that allows him to control and program the lights on his lawn. In this very site-specific project, Smith uses a Raspberry Pi to give him a web interface to program timings and settings…
Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a “who’s at home/who’s in the office” service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi…
Fred Hoefler has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered motorised assistant for a hand weaver. The problem with hand weaving is that it is hard on the hands and arms and older weavers are often unable to continue their work due to…
James P is on a quest. A quest many of us have embarked upon without success. Not for the Holy Grail, no. Something much more important: The perfect cup of tea! He explains: (It is a project) designed to brew delicate…
Rich Plakas has written a great tutorial on using the simple DHT22 temperature/humidity sensor with the Raspberry Pi in which he sends the readings to online IoT dashboard provider Initial State. He borrows a lot from other code (which he…
The bloggers over at WhiskeyTangoHotel have been investigating home automation solutions. They’ve come up with a Raspberry Pi-based solution which detects, via Bluetooth, the presence of a device (in this case an iPad) and switches on some LEDs to save…
