This is a nicely thought-out Kickstarter which puts the Raspberry Pi Camera Module to good use to capture pictures of wildlife. The unit comes in a weatherproof case with holes in the front for the camera lens and a PIR…
Category: Internet of things
Monitor your beer fridge with a Raspberry Pi
The guys over at Initial State have written a comprehensive tutorial to create an Internet of Things Beer Fridge! By using a Raspberry Pi, some sensors and a Wii balance board (!), the software is able to determine how many…
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…
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…
“Digital Twin” concept uses a Raspberry Pi to model a mountain bike
International company PTC has unveiled a new concept known as a “Digital Twin”. They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. These sensors feed into a Raspberry Pi which interprets the data and creates a virtual ‘twin’…
Train disruption indicator with lots of blinkies and a Raspberry Pi
James Singleton took a Raspberry Pi and a BlinkyTape and created a train disruption indicator. He used the London Underground API and an interface he wrote to look at Main Line delays to program the BlinkyTape to show different colours and to…
A Raspberry Pi ambient notification cube
Two years ago, Matthew Achariam decided he wanted to create a “tangible” electronics project. He came up with the idea of showing notifications via a cube of LEDs. He hooked the LEDs up to a Raspberry Pi, added a wi-fi dongle…
IoT Python app with a Raspberry Pi and Bluemix
Jeff Sloyer previously wrote a tutorial on creating a basic Flask app on the Pi. He has now expanded on this and written a new tutorial in which he creates an Internet of Things app using Python and an IBM…
Remote control Raspberry Pi GPIO with messaging queues
Messaging queues are all the rage nowadays, what with being the backbone for a lot of Internet of Things projects and concepts. In his blog post, Brian Hines explains how to use a library he wrote called pi-control-service together with RabbitMQ to…
Raspberry Pi iBeacon system for bypassing theme park queues
Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…