Over at TechRadar, the guys and girls from Linux Format have blogged about creating a burglar alarm for your home. The system uses a PIR sensor to detect movement and then takes a picture and a video then uses an…
Category: Home automation
Developing a home security system with the Raspberry Pi
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy started out with a dream when he first got hold of a Raspberry Pi: a home security system. Three years later and dozens of blog posts later, he is now returning to the project…
Tooth fairy conduit system with a vacuum and a Raspberry Pi
Jeff Highsmith, who previously created the wonderful Mission Control Desk and bedroom Apollo Mission has been hard at work again. This time he’s installed a hatch in each of his children’s bedrooms which give access to a pair of tubes into which they can put…
Raspberry Pi controlled fireworks
Sacramento-based Chris Osborn likes to control fireworks with electronics. This year, he decided to use the Raspberry Pi to trigger relays that would ignite the fireworks. In the end it didn’t work brilliantly well, but he’s blogged about it and…
Raspberry Pi controlled BBQ for briskets!
Wired magazine have published an article about a group of Harvard engineering students who have built themselves a brisket smoker. The students embarked on the project as part of one of their engineering modules at the University and have come…
Levitating chickens with a Raspberry Pi
Darren Steele came back after a holiday to find that a fox had eaten all his chickens. Undeterred, Darren bought more chickens and decided to come up with a way to protect them from the predators. His solution? Hook a…
Raspberry Pi clock and weather display
Kevin Uhlir has taken a Raspberry Pi and a large HDMI screen and then programmed the Pi to use the Weather Underground API to create a clock and weather monitor. The software will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux as long…
Barcode scanner and online shopping API fused together on the Raspberry Pi
Denis Papathanasiou has taken an off-the-shelf USB barcode scanner and plugged it into his Raspberry Pi. He’s then written some code to use barcode data stored at the Open Product Data (POD) project to tell the Pi what the product is and then…
Robot gardening workshop sponsored by Raspberry Pi Foundation
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…
Raspberry Pi security camera using a RasPiO Duino
Alex Eames has been busy experimenting with a way to replace an old low-res security camera at his house in Poland. He’s come up with a Pi-controlled, servo-positioned camera that will accept commands over Twitter. The core of the project is…