Boris Adryan wanted to introduce his children to Minecraft programming but felt that they weren’t yet ready to use Python. They were used to the visual programming environment of Scratch, however, and so the visual environment of NodeRED seemed like…
Category: Internet of things
Tweeting fish tank with a #RaspberryPi
Lauren Orsini has followed up her aquarium-temperature-monitoring project with an extra bit of programming which uses Twilio to facilitate tweeting when the tank is overheating. Read how she did it here.
The State of the Toilet with the #RaspberryPi
Just spotted this on the Foundation’s blog. Callum Jefferies and a few of his colleagues over at Made by Many decided to take the Internet of Things a bit too far. By hooking up some reed switches to a Raspberry Pi…
ePaper weather station with #RaspberryPi and #Arduino derivative
Jeremy Blum has hacked an open source BADGEr which is an e-paper conference badge into a weather station using a Pi. The BADGEr is an e-paper display mounted on a shield with an ATMEGA328 onboard. He wrote some new firmware…
Easily connect sensors to your #RaspberryPi with GrovePi
Dexter Industries (who previously developed BrickPi, a LEGO-Mindstorms interface board) are bringing out GrovePi. GrovePi is an add-on board that plugs into the GPIO pins and allows you to use Grove Sensors from SeeedStudio. These are little modules with a…
Use Flask on the #RaspberryPi to make an internet-controlled lamp
Jack Minardi has hacked into a lamp remote control with his Pi and used the Flask Python framework to expose the control to the internet. Read more here
Installing Weewx on #RaspberryPi
Chris Davies-Barnard wanted to use his Raspberry Pi for reading data from a La Crosse Weather Station. To do this, he’s using the open source Python-based Weewx software. He’s blogged about how to install the software. Read it here.
Water your plants with a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Chris Hannam has blogged about a project he’s developed to monitor the environment around his plants. He’s used a RaspberryPi and an Arduino to do it and if you’re interested you can read about it on his blog.
Control my #RaspberryPi PiRingo Christmas decoration over the internet
Carrying on from my previous post, you can now contribute to the general festive feeling in my house by controlling my PiRingo Christmas decoration. If you go to: http://109.151.115.130:8081/index.html you should get an interface to fire off various effects. Please comment on…
Control someone else’s Christmas lights with the XmasPi! #raspberrypi
And we’re back… After the Cambridge Raspberry Jam I’m just quickly posting this. Look out for a full CamJam post later on this week. Sam has hooked his Pi and an Arduino up to his Christmas lights and train set…