John Paulsson has brought a Raspberry Pi into service to help him with his job of ‘beer manager’ in a student bar. The Pi is being used for all kinds of things from stock reporting, reporting usage, monitoring light levels…
Category: Internet of things
David Whale’s #RaspberryPi Internet of Things demo board
David Whale (Twitter’s @whaleygeek) has written a blog post about his “Internet of Things Demonstrator”. This is a piece of wood with two Raspberry Pis mounted on it, plus a switch for one Pi and an LED for the other.…
Picorder (version 10) gets a walk-through construction video #RaspberryPi
My Picorder has reached another version. This time it’s got a proper case and lots more sensors. With the help of Amanda, my step-daughter, we shot this putting-it-together video that shows all the parts and bits-and-pieces that go into the…
#RaspberryPi Car Cam with GPS data & map
Martin O’Hanlon has continued his project to install a Raspberry Pi and camera in his car and now overlays the recorded video with a GPS map as well as OBD data. Read here
Create an iBeacon from a #RaspberryPi
James Nebeker and David G. Young over at Radius Networks have developed a way to use a Pi and a Bluetooth LE dongle to create a bluetooth beacon similar to Apple’s iBeacon. If you don’t know what an iBeacon is (I didn’t!)…
Residential night cooling automation with a #RaspberryPi
Here’s a cool project (cough cough). Ignacio Abel has created a prototype night-time house cooling automation project with a Raspberry Pi and some bits and pieces of tech from Ciseco. He goes into a lot of detail about how to…
Make your #RaspberryPi tweet its temperature
The “Average Man” has blogged about using the IfThisThenThat service to receive email from his Raspberry Pi and convert that into a tweet. The email contains the temperature of his Raspberry Pi! He concedes that this isn’t the most direct…
#RaspberryPi doorlock uses USB keys
In Huntsville, Alabama, Markers Local 256 hackspace has implemented a Raspberry Pi-powered lock for their door. Three hackers got together and created the system which activates a Powerbolt deadbolt. Read more about it at EE Times
Two ways to use your #RaspberryPi as a printer server
The main reason I got into Raspberry Pi in the first place was to solve the problem of access to the printer in my office (not pictured above!) from computers throughout the house. I totally failed in that aim, due…
Ultimate #RaspberryPi bird-feeder project
Chad over at Manifold has blogged about their excellent bird feeder project, powered by a Raspberry Pi Model A. I’m not going to cover it too much – read the original article yourself as it’s a great, great project. Read…